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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 ...
Race is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir action crime film directed by Abbas–Mustan and written by Kiran Kotrial and Shiraz Ahmed. Reportedly inspired by the 1998 Hollywood movie Goodbye Lover, [2] it is the first installment in the Race franchise and stars Saif Ali Khan,Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif, and Sameera Reddy.
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 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 ...
Race is an Indian neo-noir action crime film series produced by Ramesh S. Taurani and Kumar S. Taurani under the banner of Tips Industries.The series was written by Kiran Kotrial, Shiraz Ahmed, Anurag Prapanna and Jitendra Parmar, which stars Saif Ali Khan as the main lead and Anil Kapoor as a recurring character for first 2 films, Race and Race 2 are directed by Abbas–Mustan.
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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 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]