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2. Venetian Ghetto - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. File:Holocaust Memorial Plaque, Venice.jpg - Wikipedia

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4. History of the Jews in Venice - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. A buried box of photos reveals a Jewish photographer's ... - AOL

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6. Jewish ghettos in Europe - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. History of the Jews in Italy - Wikipedia

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   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).

8. Jews of world's first ghetto reflect on Europe's ... - AOL

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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 ...

9. Category:Jews and Judaism in Venice - Wikipedia

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   Venetian Jews (2 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Jews and Judaism in Venice" ... Venetian Ghetto; 0–9. 1609 Venice Haggadah; C. Canton Synagogue; G. Great German ...