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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 ...
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 ...
The Great German Synagogue was the first public synagogue erected in the Ghetto Nuovo. Together with the nearby Scuola Canton, completed in 1532, it stands as a testament to the influence of the Ashkenazi community in the early years of the Ghetto, before the arrival of the much more affluent Jewish merchants from Spain and the Levant in the 1550s.
The KKK not only targeted Blacks, but also “undesirable” immigrants, Catholics, Jews, Asians and Mexicans. The KKK included a women’s auxiliary, Kiddie Klubs, and a boys and girls teen Klubs.
The Canton Synagogue (Italian: Scuola Canton) is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, that is located in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, Italy.. Completed in 1532, it is the second oldest Venetian synagogue, after the nearby Scuola Grande Tedesca (1528), and one of five synagogues that were established in the ghetto.
The NBA suspended Irving, then a member of the Brooklyn Nets, for eight games for the post and Irving subsequently apologized for the hurt he caused to the Jewish community.