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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 ...
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest ghetto in all of Nazi occupied Europe, with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2), or 7.2 persons per room. [32] The Łódź Ghetto (set up in the city of Łódź , renamed Litzmannstadt , in the territories of Poland annexed by Nazi Germany ) was the second largest, holding ...
Rebels massacre 14 people, including 5 Chiavellis Massacre of the Assumption: 15 August 1474 Modica: 360 Christian mob Christians kill 360 Jews in Modica's La Giudecca: Otranto massacre: 11 August 1480 Otranto: 6,000 Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Turks massacre and enslave the population of Otranto
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 museum is located in between the Great German Synagogue and the Canton Synagogue, the two oldest Venetian synagogues. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Museum also organises tours of the synagogues in Venice in an effort to preserve them and educate visitors about the city's Jewish history.
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.