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Number 8, 2016
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The Venice Ghetto: 500 years
An impressive programme of exhibitions, conferences, arts projects and performances will mark the 500 years since the establishment of the Ghetto in Venice. Our contribution to this quincentennial is to draw attention to the historic collections integrated by Judaica Europeana in the Europeana portal.
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The collections of the Venice State Archives
The edict of the Venetian Republic of 29 March 1516 proclaimed ‘The Jews must all live together in the Corte de Case, which are in the Ghetto near San Girolamo; and in order to prevent their roaming at night; Let there be built two Gates on the side of the Old Ghetto where there is a little Bridge and likewise on the other side of the Bridge. …'
The history of the Jews in Venice goes back a thousand years, but their forcible containment in the Ghetto lasted from 1516-1797. It is a story of segregation, heavy taxation, overcrowding, but also of unique development of Jewish life.
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The Rules of the German Jewish Fraternity in Venice, 1713.
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18th century records from the Scola Italiana
The 18th century Book of Receipts from the Ghetto’s Scola Italiana gives an unusual insight into the realities of Jewish life in a relatively neglected period in Venetian Jewish history. It has been made available by the Goldfarb Library at Brandeis University.
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18th century Book of Receipts from the Ghetto’s Scola Italiana.
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News in brief
Europeana launches a re-designed portal, Frankfurt University Library embarks on a pioneering project in Jewish studies and Linked Open Data, Jewish Museum in Budapest re-opens
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Still life with flowers and fruits [detail] by Peter Binoit at Skokloster Castle, Sweden.
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Editor: Lena Stanley-Clamp, Designer: Catriona Sinclair, European Association for Jewish Culture, London
with contributions from the Venice State Archives and the Goldfarb Library at Brandeis University
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