Research Catalog

Title

Venice, the Jews and Europe : 1516-2016 / exhibition curated by Donatella Calabi ; translations, Christopher Huw Evans, David Kerr, Sylvia Notini, Lenore Rosenberg Bahbout.

Publication

Venice : Marsilio, June 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bahbout, Lenore Rosenberg, (Harvard local name)
• Calabi, Donatella
• Evans, Christopher Huw
• Kerr, David
• Notini, S. (Sylvia)
• Palazzo ducale (Venice, Italy) host institution.

Description

532 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 32 cm

Summary

"This book aims to tell the story of the Ghetto of Venice, the first in the world—the way it grew within itself, its architecture, social makeup, crafts and trades, material life, the relations between the Jewish minority and the rest of the city, and the background of relations with other Jewish settlements in Europe and the Mediterranean. One hundred and sixty works from around the world, including paintings (from Carpaccio to Bellini, and from Chagall to Balla and Sironi), drawings, books, and documents enable us to narrate a very long story, which is characterized by permeability, an openness fostered by cultural relations and exchanges. A reconstruction of the Ghetto in its various historical phases will make it possible to see exactly how the quarter grew. The Jewish religion's customs and rites, the outstanding importance of Venetian Jewish printing, the first in Europe, and the cultural, artistic, linguistic, and economic contexts are all analyzed. In short, this is the story of a complete and enthralling microcosm that grew and prospered for over four centuries within the Serenissima Republic, narrated on the occasion of the fifth centenary from its foundation."--Publisher's description.

Uniform Title

Venezia, gli ebrei e l'Europa, 1516-2016. English

Subject

• Jews > Italy > Venice > History > Exhibitions
• Art, Italian > Exhibitions
• Venice (Italy) > History > Exhibitions
• Venice (Italy) > Ethnic relations > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• History
• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Venice Palazzo Ducale, Appartamento del Doge, June 19-November 13, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-532).

Language (note)

• Translation of: Venezia, gli ebrei e l'Europa, 1516-2016.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The significance of the Ghetto -- Venice, the Jews, and Europe, 1516-2016: 1. Before the Ghetto -- 2. Cosmopolitan Venice -- 3. The cosmopolitan Ghetto -- 4. The synagogues -- 5. Jewish culture and women -- 6. Trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 7. Tales of the Ghetto : the shadow of Shylock -- 8. Napoleon : the opening of the gates and assimilation -- 9. The twentieth century.

ISBN

• 9788831724944
• 8831724940

LCCN

^^2016518362

OCLC

• 950951748
• SCSB-10971264

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library