Cover Image

The first ghetto : Venice and the origins of modern antisemitism /

"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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Alexander (Historian) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2026.
Subjects:
Antisemitism > History.
Antisemitism > Italy.
Antisemitism > Italy > History.
Jews > History.
Jews > Italy > Venice > History.
Jewish ghettos > History.
Jewish ghettos > Italy.
Jews > Segregation > History.
Venice (Italy) > History.
Italy > History.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews > Segregation.
Antisémitisme > Histoire.
Antisémitisme > Italie.
Juifs > Histoire.
Juifs > Italie > Venise > Histoire.
Ghettos.
Juifs > Ségrégation.
Venise (Italie) > Histoire.
Italie > Histoire.
Antisémitisme > Italie > Histoire.
Ghettos > Histoire.
Ghettos > Italie.
Juifs > Ségrégation > Histoire.
ghettos.
Informational works.
Documents d'information.
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).