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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: first ghetto
    sub title: Venice and the origins of modern antisemitism
  name:
    name part: Lee, Alexander
    name part: (Historian)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Informational works.
  genre: Documents d'information.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 411 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In the early sixteenth century, amidst the ruins of war and mounting religious hatred, the world's first Jewish 'ghetto' was established in Venice. Constrained in cramped, often unsanitary conditions, the Jews who were forced to live there were extorted, abused, and subjected to countless humiliating restrictions. In the centuries that followed, the Venetian Ghetto would become the prototype for ghettos throughout Europe--and pave the way for modern antisemitism. But this is also a tale of hope. Against the odds, the Ghetto's residents thrived, creating a vibrant literary, musical, and religious community. They became essential to the survival of Venice itself--and as more Jewish refugees arrived, the Ghetto became a microcosm of the Jewish world. Tracing its story from its medieval origins to the present day, historian Alexander Lee explores the Ghetto through the eyes of its Jewish inhabitants, from the domestic troubles of a seventeenth-century rabbi to the agonizing wait of a family bound for Auschwitz. Authoritative, detailed, and timely, this definitive history shows what happens when war and economics collide with hatred--and also offers a powerful warning for the future." --
  table of contents: An uncertain refuge (to c. 1440) -- Borrowed time (c. 1440-1492) -- Confinement (1492-1516) -- "Under the protection of the Lord" (1516-1541) -- Expansion (1541-1553) -- The great fiction (1553-1589) -- The golden age (1589-1630) -- Bodily sickness (1630-1663) -- A spiritual crisis (1663-1688) -- Orphans of the storm (1688-1714) -- The age of unreason (1714-1789) -- The burning of the gates (1789-1797) -- The price of freedom (1797-1835) -- Risorgimento (1835-1866) -- The emptying of the ghetto (1866-1945) -- Epilogue (1945-present).
  note: Alexander Lee.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    topic: Antisemitism
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Antisemitism
    geographic: Italy
  subject:
    topic: Antisemitism
    geographic: Italy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Venice
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Jewish ghettos
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Jewish ghettos
    geographic: Italy
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Segregation
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Venice (Italy)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Italy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Jewish ghettos
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Segregation
  subject:
    topic: Antisémitisme
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Antisémitisme
    geographic: Italie
  subject:
    topic: Juifs
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Juifs
    geographic: Italie
    geographic: Venise
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Ghettos
  subject:
    topic: Juifs
    topic: Ségrégation
  subject:
    geographic: Venise (Italie)
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    geographic: Italie
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Antisémitisme
    geographic: Italie
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Ghettos
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Ghettos
    geographic: Italie
  subject:
    topic: Juifs
    topic: Ségrégation
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: ghettos
  classification: DS146.I8 L44 2026
  classification: DS146.E85 L44 2026
  classification: 305.8924
  identifier: 9781541608771
  identifier: 1541608771
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: OQX
    record creation date: 260509
    record change date: 20260712032512.1
    record identifier: in00005787639
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng