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“Most of all, the Ghetto’s story is a testament of hope.”
“Yet the Venetian government knew that it could not manage without a Jewish presence, either.”
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“Like many other European states, Venice had long regarded Jews as a threat to its Christian identity.”
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“It was in that moment that my fascination for the Venetian Ghetto began.”
“_______________________________ From The First Ghetto: Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism by Alexander Lee.”
“Lee is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.”
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“The First Ghetto has been shortlisted for the 2026 Cundill History Prize .”
“By the early sixteenth century, the Republic’s economy was already showing signs of decline.”
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“Jews often lived outside the Ghetto; and, at times, Christians made their homes inside its walls.”
“Although I did not realize it at the time, I had glimpsed— felt —the essence of its past.”
“Over the 300 years of its existence, the Ghetto became a byword for the forcible segregation of Jewish communities.”
“There was no conscious effort to model it after Jewish quarters elsewhere, no clear awareness of its past, and no vision of how it might evolve more than a handful of years in the future.”
“Rather, it was an ad hoc creation, occasioned by the tumult of the Italian Wars, and framed by Venice’s—perhaps myopic—determination to reconcile religious prejudice with its most pressing economic needs.”
“Comparisons with Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice are invidious, but perhaps unavoidable.”
“Though its high walls were intended to protect the Christian population, they sometimes did more to defend the Jewish people within.”
“And after its gates were finally pulled down, it lived on—as much in mind as in space.”
“I have therefore tried to link the daily happenings in Cannaregio with the bigger picture as clearly as I can.”