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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 653

Venice ghetto

Left: Orthodox Jews congregate in Venice’s ancient Jewish ghetto. (Photo by Paolo Raccanelli); Right: Cover of 'Shylock’s Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto,' by Harry Freedman. (Courtesy)
October 26, 2024, 1:00 pm
Poetry, philosophy and a gambling rabbi: A colorful history of Venice’s Jewish ghetto
In ‘Shylock’s Venice,’ UK author Harry Freedman paints a vibrant picture of an oft-overlooked side of Jewish history that goes far deeper than the famous Shakespeare character
By Rich Tenorio
Rita Ranzato, an art restorer, uses a scalpel to take away layers of old paint from a stuccoed wall inside the 1575 Italian Schola Synagogue in Venice, northern Italy, June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Chris Warde-Jones)
June 12, 2022, 5:33 pm
Venice ghetto’s synagogues undergo a restoration renaissance
Effort underway to preserve historic neighborhood’s 16th-century houses of prayer, both for the small remaining Jewish community and for tourists
By CHRIS WARDE-JONES
Alon Beker and Michal Meron pose inside their art gallery in Venice. (Orge Castellano/JTA)
April 23, 2022, 4:22 am
Venice’s frayed, shrinking 500-year-old Jewish Ghetto is planning a renaissance
Down from a pre-Holocaust peak of 5,000, the city’s 450 remaining Jews face numerous struggles, including rising water levels. They’re launching a grassroots revitalization effort
By Orge Castellano
Illustrative: A visitor looks at an exhibit in the Jewish Museum of Venice. (Credit: Porcel)
July 13, 2020, 11:00 pm
Renovation brings Venice Jewish Museum into future, visitors into 16th century
The $10 million project is self-financed by the city’s Jewish community and will inject new life into the central complex; includes an immersive replica of ancient ghetto housing
By Giovanni Vigna
Illustrative: Kosher butchers picket outside a shop in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood on Orchard Street in New York's Lower East Side, October 4, 1937. (AP Photo)
March 2, 2020, 2:47 am
From Venice, to Nazis, to US inner cities — how the ghetto got its name
Prof. Daniel B. Schwartz studies the evolution of a word that’s kept outsiders out and insiders in — voluntarily and involuntarily — and been used as a tool for over 500 years
By Rich Tenorio
Fabio Penazzo, a hotel manager in Venice's Jewish ghetto, says God helped keep the damage to a minimum in record-setting flooding last November. Photo taken on December 28, 2019. (Giovanni Vigna/ Times of Israel)
January 17, 2020, 5:53 am
Damaged but not drowned, Venice Jewish ghetto counts its blessings after flood
November’s record deluge caused an estimated billion dollars in damage citywide, but the historic enclave central to a close-knit community got off relatively easy
By Giovanni Vigna
Impromptu Jewish wedding of Americans Lana Atlasov and David Mednick (center) in Venice's Piazza San Marco on June 26, 2016. Todd Shotz (left) officiated. (Courtesy)
July 12, 2016, 12:13 pm
American couple has impromptu Venice Jewish wedding
Chance meeting at historical Italian synagogue leads to hurried huppah
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The title Page of the Venice Haggadah produced in 1609. (Yale University Library)
April 19, 2016, 8:46 am
Venice Haggadah gets facelift for 500th anniversary
Eight artists design etchings for new illustrated volume to mark half millennium since ghetto founded
By JTA and ToI Staff
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