Date/Time
Sunday 09/11/2016
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Museo Italo Americano
Categories
The Venice Ghetto at 500: A Tale of Isolation, Exclusion, Money and Moxie an illustrated lecture by Professor Murray Baumgarten, distinguished Emeritus professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Santa Cruz and Board President, Venice Center for International Jewish Studies.
When the Venetians sequestered the Jews in the Ghetto in 1516, they isolated and excluded them, requiring them to take on the role of usurers and pawnbrokers, at interest rates that would benefit the Venetian government. But, in this new phase of Jewish Exile – enclosure in the Ghetto – the Jews were to discover diasporic opportunity. They would learn to live together and realize their historic role in forging the renewal of Western civilization in the Renaissance.
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