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September 30, 2016

The Cultural Heritage of the Venice Ghetto, on Display in Jerusalem

The 500th anniversary of the first ghetto.

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the establishment of the Venice ghetto—a restricted area of Jewish settlement that gave subsequent ghettos its name—Jerusalem’s Israel Museum is displaying artifacts that show how Venetian Jews flourished despite the widespread anti-Semitism that led to their segregation. Eli Mendelbaum writes:

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