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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

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Architecture
Small image of topographical cityscape.
Plunder of the Ghetto Following the Fettmilch Riots against the Jews of Frankfurt am Main Plunder of the Ghetto
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In August 1614, a gingerbread baker named Vincenz Fettmilch (d. 1616) led a mob that rampaged through the Judengasse (Jews’ street) in Frankfurt am Main, injuring and killing two or three Jews…

Contributor:

Matthäus Merian

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1628

Subjects:

Print, Antisemitism, Jewish quarters, Christian-Jewish relations, Violence

Categories:

History, Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Engraved print of people fighting in chaotic city street.