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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 ...
In some of the ghettos the local resistance organizations launched the ghetto uprisings; none were successful, and the Jewish populations of the ghettos were almost entirely killed. [42] Jews from Eastern Poland (areas now in Lithuania , Belarus , Ukraine ) were killed using guns rather than in gas chambers, see Ponary massacre , Janowska ...
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 ...
Attack on the Jewish ghetto of Buda. [227] [228] 1686 Only 500 Jews survive after Austrian sieged the city of Buda. Half of them are sold into slavery. [227] [229] 1689 Worms is invaded by the French and the Jewish quarter is reduced to ashes. [230] 1689 The Jewish Ghetto of Prague is destroyed by French troops. After it was over 318 houses, 11 ...
The Italian Synagogue was built in 1575 [4] to serve the needs of the Italian Jews, the poorest group living in the Venetian Ghetto.As such, it is the smallest, and the most simple of the five synagogues.
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.
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).