The Venetian Ghetto

By Bernard Cooperman, Roberta Curiel, Bernard Dov Cooperman

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847812367
• ISBN13: 9780847812363
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.7" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

A Fabulous Book

For armchair travelers wishing to go to Venice, for synagogue architectural buffs, this gorgeous and sumptuous book will enthrall, with particularly fine photographs and histories of Venice's five major synagogues in the ghetto walls, which, alas, are closed on Saturdays (Shabbos). It will take you back to what it must have been like living in the early 16th century Venice ghetto, which was a polycultural city with Spanish, Ashkenaz (German), Italian, and Levantine (east mediterranean) populations, each with their own synagogue and synagogue rites. For synagogue architectural buffs, please also see: The Synagogues of Europe (Krinsky); And I shall Dwell Among Them (Neil Folberg) with gorgeous photos of synagogues around the world, but little text; The Synagogue (Meeks);, and most impressively, Synagogues without Jews (Rivka and Benzion Dorfman), the latter and indispensable guide to what is no longer. As Aharon Applefeld says in his poem: "In my heart there is a Synagogue...) Max Mulberg, PhD

A sumptuous guide to Venice's Jewish heritage

A lavishly illustrated, large-format guide to the streets, monuments, and art treasures of Europe's oldest Ghetto. The most fascinating part of the book may be its introduction, which describes how Levantine Jews and Jewish refugees from other European countries built a prosperous community in the Venetian Republic. Durant Imboden, Venice for Visitors, http://govenice.miningco.co