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Location of Cannaregio district in Venice. The origins of the name ghetto (ghèto in the Venetian language) are disputed. Among the theories are: ghetto comes from "giotto" or "geto", meaning "foundry", since the first Jewish quarter was near a foundry that once made cannons; [4] [5] ghetto, from Italian getto, which is the act of, or the resulting object from, pouring molted metal into a mold ...
The Renato Maestro Library and Archives was opened in the Venetian Ghetto via private funding in 1981. Its main goal is to make a wide range of resources on Judaism, Jewish civilization, and particularly the history of Italian and Venetian Jews, accessible to a vast public, and to promote knowledge of all these subjects. The library owns a ...
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The Jews of the world's first ghetto have some words of advice for Europe as it struggles to deal with mass migration. Jews of world's first ghetto reflect on Europe's migrant crisis Skip to main ...
However, in the course of World War II the Third Reich created a totally new Jewish ghetto-system for the purpose of persecution, terror, and exploitation of Jews, mostly in Eastern Europe. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archives, "The Germans established at least 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and ...
The Holocaust in Italy was the persecution, deportation, and murder of Jews between 1943 and 1945 in the Italian Social Republic, the part of the Kingdom of Italy occupied by Nazi Germany after the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943, during World War II.
Sarfatti, Michele, The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) (Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History). Schwarz, Guri, After Mussolini: Jewish Life and Jewish Memories in Post-Fascist Italy (London-Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2012).
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