The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice
by
Dana E. Katz
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1316616908
ISBN-13
9781316616901
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 11th, 2019
Print length
204 Pages
Weight
302 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.80 x 1.70 cms
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Informed by contemporary and current theories of space and histories of the senses, this book explores the urban form of the Jewish ghetto in Venice from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. It will be essential reading for academic scholars, and graduate and undergraduate students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Dana E. Katz examines the Jewish ghetto of Venice as a paradox of urban space. In 1516, the Senate established the ghetto on the periphery of the city and legislated nocturnal curfews to reduce the Jews' visibility in Venice. Katz argues that it was precisely this practice of marginalization that put the ghetto on display for Christian and Jewish eyes. According to her research, early modern Venetians grounded their conceptions of the ghetto in discourses of sight. Katz's unique approach demonstrates how Venice's Jewish ghetto engaged the sensory imagination of its inhabitants in complex and contradictory ways that both shaped urban space and reshaped Christian-Jewish relations.
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