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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 ...
Judeo-Venetian was formed as Jews in Venice began speaking their own dialect of Venetian due to isolation from the general populace in the Venetian ghetto and influence from Hebrew. The language would go extinct at some point in the 20th century.
The Venetian Inquisition, formally the Holy Office (Latin: Sanctum Officium), was the tribunal established jointly by the Venetian government and the Catholic Church to repress heresy throughout the Republic of Venice. The inquisition also intervened in cases of sacrilege, apostasy, prohibited books, superstition, and witchcraft.
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 ...
Riccardo Calimani (born 1946 in Venice, Italy) is a writer and historian, specialising in Italian and European Judaism and Jewish history. A graduate of electronic engineering at the University of Padua and of Philosophy of science at the University of Venice , he worked many years a director of TV programmes at RAI for the Venetian Region.
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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.
Venetian Jews (2 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Jews and Judaism in Venice" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Venetian Ghetto; 0–9.