A personal project, in the proper sense of the word.
Alina, The Founder

For most of my life, I lived without paying attention to my Jewish roots. Then October 7th happened and a voice woke up inside me that called me toward Israel. I resisted it. I started reading. I started listening. By September of 2025, I had moved to Tel Aviv.


For more than ten years before that, I had been running a private tour agency in Italy. I knew the country in a way few foreigners ever do. And as I began to study at Bar-Ilan University, I noticed something: in Poland, families had a way to come back to their ancestors. In Italy, they did not.


Italy is where many American-Jewish families came from Sephardic, Italian Jewish, Roman Jewish, families who left in the 1930s and 1940s and never spoke of it again. The archives are still here. The synagogues are still here. The streets are still here. They were just waiting for someone who knew both worlds, Italian and Jewish, to begin listening.


That is what Radici is.

I got along with Jews. I thought it was a character trait.
Diana, The Co-founder

I grew up in Kyiv. I studied at the International Solomon University from 1995 to 2000, in the years when Jewish life in the city was being rebuilt almost from nothing, and then I went to work in the state archives. That is where I learned how much of a family survives on paper long after it has disappeared from conversation.


More than twenty years ago I moved to Italy. I have lived in Florence since 2003, working as a licensed guide and an archival researcher . Half my days in reading rooms, half on the streets with clients.


For most of my life I explained my work the way people explain a temperament. I was drawn to Jewish history, Jewish friends, Jewish rooms. I got along with Jews, I would say, as if it were a quirk of personality. Then my mother died, and among her papers I found a letter from the 1990s: an invitation to emigrate to Israel. She had never mentioned it. She had never mentioned that she was Jewish at all.


I learned who my mother was from a document, years too late to ask her. Every family I work with now, I work with knowing that.


That is why I do this.

Foundations

  • Ten years in Italian tourism
    Running a private tour agency across Milan, Florence, and Venice with established trust among local guides and operators.
  • Bar-Ilan University
    Studying Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University, where I now live and work.
  • Italian archivists
    On staff in Florence and Venice — the relationships that make true archival work possible.
  • Synagogue partnerships
    Working agreements with the Jewish communities of Rome, Florence, and Venice.
  • Working languages
    English, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, Hebrew, Georgian.
"Thank you for opening Italy to us. Each of us came away with memories of our own that will stay with us forever. Your support was felt every single minute, everything was so professional and so interesting."
— Alex, ★★★★★
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How we work
Three movements, in their own time.
  • We listen
    We meet by video: you, your family if you wish, and we listen. To the names you remember. The town, if you know it. The story your grandmother told once. We do not work from forms. Each family is its own beginning, and we treat it that way.
  • We search
    Our archivists in Italy, together with our partners Italian Jewish communities, open civil registries, synagogue records, ketubot, business permits, cemetery indexes. We do not estimate timelines, because honest archival work cannot be hurried. You receive every document we find.
  • We walk together
    When you are ready, and only then, we plan the journey. The street where they lived. The synagogue where they were married. The cemetery where they rest. We organize the gates that open privately, the guides who speak our language, the table where you sit at the end of the day.
Services
Three ways to begin.
  • La Ricerca
    Before a search begins, we establish whether one should
    Preliminary Assessment
    $950
    • An archivist examines what records survive for your family's name and town, searches the accessible indexes for the name itself, and writes you a plain assessment: what exists, where it sits, and whether the search is worth beginning.
    • One family line, one surname and its variants
    • A written assessment of three to five pages, signed by the archivist who did the work
    • Named archives, record sets and dates, not a general account of what is possible in Italy
    • A clear recommendation, including the recommendation not to proceed

    3-5 weeks. The fee is credited in full toward L'Archivio if you continue within ninety days.
  • L'Archivio
    The Archival Search
    From $4,500 per family
    Tailored to scope
    • Full archival research conducted by our team in Florence, Venice, and Rome
    • Civil, synagogue, and notarial records
    • Original document copies, professionally presented
    • Genealogical narrative report in English
    • If we find nothing, half of your deposit is returned
    • Begins with La Ricerca, credited in full toward this tier
  • La Mappa
    Search & Personal Itinerary
    From $7,500
    L'Archivio + Self-led Journey
    • Everything in L'Archivio
    • A bespoke itinerary, prepared as a printed and digital document, tracing your ancestors' Italy.
    • Curated guides, restaurants, and synagogues to visit independently
    • Direct introductions to local Jewish communities
    • Annotated maps of historic ghetti, streets, and family addresses
    • Begins with La Ricerca, continuos with L'Archivio credited in full toward this tier.
  • Il Viaggio
    The Full Journey
    From $28,000
    Fully arranged
    For families up to four
    • Everything in L'Archivio and La Mappa
    • Full organization: five-star hotels, private guides, drivers
    • Private access where possible — synagogues, archives, communities
    • Kosher and Shabbat-observant logistics, on request
    • Alina joins you for key days of the journey
For those who have arrived, and now want to know where they began.
  • You have built a life.

    The career, the family, the home — they are in place. What remains is the question of inheritance, in its older sense: not what you receive, but what you are passing forward.

  • You feel the pull of a story.

    A grandfather who said little. A photograph in a drawer. A surname that, when you say it aloud, is both Italian and Jewish at once.

  • You want to walk where they walked.

    Not as a tourist. As a descendant. With the door opened, the document in hand, and time enough to stand still.

"I want to express my sincere gratitude to Alina for organizing our entire route: the bookings, the museum tickets, the train tickets. Every hour was full of fascinating stories, facts and details. All of the guides were knowledgeable and wonderful storytellers, and we came away with the very best impressions. We learned a great deal that we would never have found in a textbook. Thank you so much for the flawless organization, for the way the material was presented, and for the love of Italy you passed on to us. We are absolutely delighted!"

— Larisa, ★★★★★
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