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Venezia gave us the word ghetto, as it means foundry in Venetian. The Venetian Ghetto is one of the oldest continuos Jewish settlements in Europe. We took the tour of the synagogues (there are five in total) - the tour is the only real way to see them. On the face of one of the synagogues was a tablet of the founders. We found the rules of the Ghetto - these are on a stone table embedded in the wall inside the entrance to the Azkenazy side (Nuovo Ghetto).
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The
rules of the Nuovo Ghetto
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The
founders of a synagogue
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A second ghetto, next to the first, was created later during the Inquisition to house Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal. We walked back to the Museo Ebraico, the Ghetto museum. Along the way, we stopped at a fantastic shop for Judaica; the owner and his spouse run the shop, and its filled with metal pieces he has made - I bought a sterling silver yud, the pointer used when reading from the Torah. I bought a history of the Ghetto, The Ghetto in the Lagoon, which I'm still reading and that I recommend highly.
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Ticket
for Museo Ebraico
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Business
card for Arte Ebraica
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We had lunch at Gam Gam.
Send
email to Bob at electricbob@alephnaught.com
Send
email to Aviva at avivakramer@earthlink.net
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