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When we visit the Ghetto of Venice we enter an extraordinary and
unique quarter. Five synagogues (15th to 16th C.) are located in this
small area, representing the different "nations" (Jewish ethnic
groups) who settled down in the Lagoon along the centuries. Here also
stand the "skyscrapers", the old and crowded buildings were the Jews
lived, the ancient pawn shops, the midrashim were the sacred texts
were studied and discussed.
The ancient stones are still there and the Jewish Comunity, alive and
culturally very active, still has its center here. The Venetian Jews
lived confined in the Ghetto from 1516, when the Republic of Venice
decreed that they all had to live in the same area, until 1797, when
Napoleon put an end to the segregation and had the Ghetto gates
destroyed. But Jewish life had begun long before in the territories
of the Veneto and developed through the centuries. Nowadays there are
about 600 Jews living in Venezia and Mestre, very few in the Ghetto.
Nevertheless, the Ghetto has sprung to new life in the last decade
becoming the throbbing heart of all the community activities - the
Synagogues, the administrative offices, the Museum, the rest home and
the social center are all there. At the social center children,
teenagers and adults are taught Hebrew and Judaism, and meetings and
othe cultural events take place during holiday and on several other
occasions. A one-day seminar on Jewish subjects ("Giornata di Studi")
has taken place every yer for the last twenty years, atracting a
varied and qualified audience. The Venetian Community is committed to
several projects in order to maintain its traditions and artistic
legacy, share its history and culture, and fight prejudice and
antisemitism. An ever growing number of visitors come here from all
over the world to admire the synagogues and the museum, and more and
more schools bring their chidren to see the Ghetto and to learn, even
in their own syllabi, about Judaism and its traditions.
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HISTORY OF THE GHETTO AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
Jewish settlements in the Veneto were found even in ancient times.
Archeological remains and reliable testimony testify to the presence
of Jews in Aquileia, Grado, and Concordia since the IV and V
centuries. Jews from the East and transalpine countries were the
first to settle there, but, after 1492, many Jews expelled from Spain
and Portugal also arrived. Small communities were created in the
mainland near Padua, Treviso, Bassano, and Conegliano. From there,
Jews began to move to Venice where their residence was always
precarious owing to the wavering policy of the Serenissima which kept
giving and withdrawing its permission to stay. Gradually, however,
the number of Jews and the importance of the role they played in the
life of the city kept growing. The Governor of the Republic, then,
decided that the Jews had to live in only one area of the city and on
29 March 1516 a law decreed that that area was to be in the S.
Girolamo parish and would be called "Ghetto Novo". Thus the first
ghetto of Europe came into existence. Today it is a lively and
thriving quarter, with its religious and administrative institutions,
particularly two Synagogues, still open to service.
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