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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 ...
Mogilev Ghetto Mogilev holding 12,000 Jews; Gomel Ghetto in Gomel holding over 10,000 Jews; in Gomel Region alone, twenty ghettos were established in which no less than 21,000 people were imprisoned. [13] Slutsk Ghetto Slutsk holding 10,000 Jews; Borisov Ghetto Barysaw holding 8,000 Jews; Polotsk Ghetto Polotsk holding 8,000 Jews. [14]
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 ...
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 ...
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]
The Jewish Museum of Venice was founded in 1953 by Cesare Vivante and rabbis Elio Toaff and Bruno Polacco. It was established at the request of Giovannina Reinisch Sullam and Aldo Fortis. The museum was dedicated to Vittorio Fano, president of the Jewish Community of Venice from 1945 to 1959. Its original purpose remains the same as today.
The Nazis viewed Jews not just as a race but as an inferior and dangerous one. And they tried to eliminate Jews on precisely those grounds. Whoopi Goldberg was wrong.