The Fondazione per i Beni Culturali Ebraici in Italia – Onlus (Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy – Non-Profit Organisation) was set up by the Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche Italiane (UCEI – Union of Italian Jewish Communities) in 1986. Its purpose is to promote the recovery, conservation, restoration and promotion of Italian Jewish historic and cultural heritage, and publicise its knowledge in Italy and abroad; this comprises every asset of interest from a cultural, religious, archaeological, archival, bibliographical and musical point of view.
The aim is to ensure the preservation of Jewish cultural heritage in Italy, which represent the widespread, locally rooted memory of a presence in this country which has lasted for more than two thousand two hundred years.