Stepping into Venice’s Jewish Ghetto feels a bit like traveling ... Giovanni Volpe’s store is the quarter’s most sought-after Jewish bakery. It’s not uncommon seeing someone outside ...

a quarter soon known as the Ghetto after the Venetian word for copper foundry, the site’s previous tenant. Ziyah Gafić In March 2016 the Jewish Ghetto in Venice will celebrate its 500th ...

The gates of the Jewish quarter were locked at night. But the Venice ghetto also served for centuries as a center for Jewish culture as Jews from Spain, Germany, France, the Levant and southern ...

The first thing they do is bring out a bag of bread and olive oil so you can make Motzi.  Then, on the waiter’s suggestion, ...

The district of Cannaregio is the old Jewish Quarter of Venice and houses some of the most historic ancient synagogues in Europe. Made out of white limestone, the Bridge of Sighs passes over the ...

Schwartz dates the first ghetto to 1516, when Venice relocated its Jews to an ... segregated, enclosed Jewish quarter.” Another ghetto was established in Rome by papal decree in 1555.

Stepping into Venice’s Jewish Ghetto feels a bit like traveling back in time ... Giovanni Volpe’s store is the quarter’s most sought-after Jewish bakery. It’s not uncommon seeing someone outside ...

Stepping into Venice’s Jewish Ghetto feels a bit like traveling ... Giovanni Volpe’s store is the quarter’s most sought-after Jewish bakery. It’s not uncommon seeing someone outside ...