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Map of the City of Venice, ca. 1729
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This eighteenth-century map of Venice includes the ghetto within which the city’s Jews were required to live from 1516 until Napoleon’s conquest of the Republic of Venice in 1797. The Venice ghetto…

Contributor:

Lodovico Furlanetto

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1729

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Christian-Jewish relations, Print, Architecture

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art, Architecture
Small image of topographical cityscape.
Thieves in the Night
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But the distant lulls were merely the frame of the picture; the feast for Joseph’s eyes was the green Valley of Jezreel itself, the cradle of the Communes. Twenty years ago a desolate marsh cursed…

Contributor:

Arthur Koestler

Places:

Date:

1946

Subjects:

Migration, Christian-Jewish relations, Cities, Jewish quarters, Antisemitism, Fiction, Folklore

Categories:

Fiction, Folklore