[PDF] Venice Synagogues eBook

Author : Umberto Fortis
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1614280525

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Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Venice Ghetto, this magnificent hand-bound Ultimate Collection volume introduces readers to the beauty and historical and spiritual significance of the five principal synagogues in Venice, the most important markers of Jewish faith and culture in the Most Serene Republic. Behind the walls of the Ghetto, Venetian Jews expressed strong ties to the traditions of their forefathers in constructing these beautiful places of worship. The architecture, furnishings, and decorations blended the memory of their different countries of origin with traditions of Venetian artistic culture, bequeathing the City on the Lagoon enduring monuments of unparalleled eminence that remain sites of reverence and admiration.

Author : Umberto Fortis
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
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Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1614288402

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Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Venice Ghetto, this magnificent hand-bound Ultimate Collection volume introduces readers to the beauty and historical and spiritual significance of the five principal synagogues in Venice, the most important markers of Jewish faith and culture in the Most Serene Republic. Behind the walls of the Ghetto, Venetian Jews expressed strong ties to the traditions of their forefathers in constructing these beautiful places of worship. The architecture, furnishings, and decorations blended the memory of their different countries of origin with traditions of Venetian artistic culture, bequeathing the City on the Lagoon enduring monuments of unparalleled eminence that remain sites of reverence and admiration.

Author : Carol Herselle Krinsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486290782

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Superbly illustrated views from antiquity to modern times accompany concise profiles of synagogues across the continent, including Cracow's Old Synagogue, the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, and Vienna's Tempelgasse. 253 illustrations.

Author : Robert C. Davis
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2001-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801865121

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The constraints of the ghetto and the concomitant interaction of various Jewish traditions produced a remarkable cultural flowering.

Author : Dana E. Katz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107165148

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This book explores how the Jewish ghetto engaged the sensory imagination of Venice in complex and contradictory ways to shape urban space and reshape Christian-Jewish relations.

Author : Margaret Doody
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2007-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812239843

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In this journey through the work of artists and the writings of travelers who have been both smitten and repelled by the influence of Venice, Margaret Doody explores ways in which this is a city profoundly unlike any other on earth—and one that simultaneously unsettles and reveals many of our most deeply rooted cultural values.

Author : Roberta Curiel
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :

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Essentially a guided tour of the Ghetto. The book provides a basic history of Jewish life in Venice, detailed descriptions of Ghetto buildings and pictures of artworks, interiors and the cemetery on the Lido.

Author : Harry Freedman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1399407260

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The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice – and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history – one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline. And essential to any history of Venice during its glory days is the story of its Jewish population. Venice gave the world the word ghetto. Astonishingly, the ghetto prison turned out to be as remarkable a place as the city of Venice itself. With sound scholarship and a narrator's skill, Harry Freedman tells the story of Venice's Jews. From the founding of the ghetto in 1516, to the capture of Venice by Napoleon in 1797, he describes the remarkable cultural renaissance that took place in the Venice ghetto. Gates and walls notwithstanding, for the first time in European history Jews and Christians mingled intellectually, learned from each other, shared ideas and entered modernity together. When it came to culture, the ghetto walls were porous. Any history of Venice and its Jews also can't avoid the story of Shakespeare's Shylock. The cultural and political revival in the Venice ghetto is often obscured from history by this fictional character. Who, we wonder, was Shylock? Would the people of Venice have recognized him and what did Shakespeare really think of him? Shakespeare's ambivalent anti-Semitism reflects attitudes to Jews in Elizabethan England – but as Freedman demonstrates, Shakespeare's myth is wholly ignorant of the literary, cultural and interfaith revival that Shylock would have experienced.