VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice’s Jewish ghetto is considered the first in Europe and one of the first in the world, and a new effort is underway to preserve its 16th-century synagogues for the Jews who ...

A new book on the Venetian Ghetto, formed by the municipal government of Venice in the early 1500s to confine Italian Jews, explores the ongoing cultural impact of this first-ever such space.

VENICE, Italy — Venice’s Jewish ghetto is considered the first in Europe and one of the first in the world, and a new effort is underway to preserve its 16th-century synagogues for the Jews who have ...

The new form of European Jew hatred has reached Venice, the place highlighted in Shakespeare's ultimate exercise in ancient Jewish blood libel, The Merchant of Venice. The mayor of Venice has ...

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice’s Jewish ghetto is considered the first in Europe and one of the first in the world, and a new effort is underway to preserve its 16th-century synagogues for the Jews who ...

VENICE — On a sunny but frigid Saturday morning in late December, a seagull coasts to a landing and rummages for food among the damaged household goods and other debris accumulated along the streets ...

The historic Venice Ghetto returned to calm early this week after three days of intensive police controls following an unspecified terrorist threat. “Things seem back to normal today,” Michaela Zanon ...

The historic Venice Ghetto returned to calm early this week after three days of intensive police controls, apparently in response to a tip that this centuries-old Jewish quarter, a popular tourist ...

For nearly two years, restorers have been discovering the original foundations of three of the ghetto’s synagogues. VENICE, Italy — Venice’s Jewish ghetto is considered the first in Europe and one of ...

VENICE, Italy -- Venice's Jewish ghetto is considered the first in Europe and one of the first in the world, and a new effort is underway to preserve its 16th-century synagogues for the Jews who have ...

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