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Early modern Europe segregation
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global history of ghettos
historic Jewish synagogues in Venice
historical trauma and literature
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Identity and space in Jewish history
Interdisciplinary Jewish studies
Italian Jewish heritage
Italian Jewish settlement
Jewish architecture in Venice
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Jewish communities in Italy
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Jewish exile in European cities
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Jewish storytelling and identity
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Jewish-Muslim urban encounters
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mapping Jewish ghettos
Marginalized urban communities
material culture of the ghetto
Material memory in Jewish culture
Materiality and memory
meaning of the word ghetto
medieval and Renaissance ghettos
Mellah and hara urban forms
Memory and forced separation
Memory spaces in Jewish culture
Narratives of Jewish resilience
North African Jewish quarters
Origins of Jewish segregation
philosophy of segregation
Preserving ghetto history
Primo Levi and the Holocaust
Religious identity in civic planning
Renaissance city planning
Renaissance Jewish studies
Renaissance Venice
Spatial theory and memory
Transnational memory studies
urban design of the Venice Ghetto
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- ISBN 9781625346155
- Weight: 359g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 25 Feb 2022
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Venice Ghetto was founded in 1516 by the Venetian government as a segregated area of the city in which Jews were compelled to live. The world's first ghetto and the origin of the English word, the term simultaneously works to mark specific places and their histories, and as a global symbol that evokes themes of identity, exile, marginalization, and segregation. To capture these multiple meanings, the editors of this volume conceptualize the ghetto as a "memory space that travels" through both time and space.
This interdisciplinary collection engages with questions about the history, conditions, and lived experience of the Venice Ghetto, including its legacy as a compulsory, segregated, and enclosed space. Contributors also consider the ghetto's influence on the figure of the Renaissance moneylender, the material culture of the ghetto archive, the urban form of North Africa's mellah and hara, and the ghetto's impact on the writings of Primo Levi and Marjorie Agosín.
In addition to the volume editors, The Venice Ghetto features a foreword from James E. Young and contributions from Shaul Bassi, Murray Baumgarten, Margaux Fitoussi, Dario Miccoli, Andrea Yaakov Lattes, Federica Ruspio, Michael Shapiro, Clive Sinclair, and Emanuela Trevisan Semi.
This interdisciplinary collection engages with questions about the history, conditions, and lived experience of the Venice Ghetto, including its legacy as a compulsory, segregated, and enclosed space. Contributors also consider the ghetto's influence on the figure of the Renaissance moneylender, the material culture of the ghetto archive, the urban form of North Africa's mellah and hara, and the ghetto's impact on the writings of Primo Levi and Marjorie Agosín.
In addition to the volume editors, The Venice Ghetto features a foreword from James E. Young and contributions from Shaul Bassi, Murray Baumgarten, Margaux Fitoussi, Dario Miccoli, Andrea Yaakov Lattes, Federica Ruspio, Michael Shapiro, Clive Sinclair, and Emanuela Trevisan Semi.
