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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 ...
Henryk Ross photographed the horrors of the ghetto knowing that, if he was caught, he and his family would be killed. A buried box of photos reveals a Jewish photographer's chronicle of life in ...
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 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 ...
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The word ghetto originates from the Venetian ghetto, the Jewish quarter in Venice's Cannaregio district where Jews were legally confined following a 1516 decree. [6] In the 16th century, Italian Jews, including those in Venice, commonly used the unrelated Hebrew term ḥāṣēr ('courtyard') to refer to a ghetto. [6]
Menachem Taffel's body, part of the Jewish skeleton collection. The Jewish skull collection was an attempt by Nazi Germany to create an anthropological display to showcase the alleged racial inferiority of the "Jewish race" and to emphasize the Jews' status as Untermenschen ("subhumans"), in contrast to the Aryan race, which the Nazis considered to be superior.