Preludio al ghetto di Venezia. Gli ebrei sotto i dogi (1250-1516)

Segre, Renata (2021) Preludio al ghetto di Venezia. Gli ebrei sotto i dogi (1250-1516). Studi di storia, 15 . Ca' Foscari-Digital Publishing, Venezia. ISBN 978-88-6969-552-0

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ITALIANO: Una storia della presenza ebraica a Venezia e nella Serenissima Repubblica prima dell’istituzione del Ghetto di Venezia non era ancora mai stata scritta, in assenza di un’indagine nelle fonti documentarie degli archivi e delle biblioteche. Questo libro, frutto di una ventennale ricerca sistematica, intende smentire il mito di uno stanziamento degli ebrei a Venezia solo dal 1516. L’ambito documentario copre quasi trecento anni (tra metà del Duecento e secondo decennio del Cinquecento), ossia dalle prime sicure presenze di ebrei al loro definitivo insediamento nell’area urbana denominata Ghetto (nuovo), in un periodo particolarmente travagliato della storia veneziana. In questo quadro storico, un rilievo specia- le va riconosciuto a Mestre, che, a ridosso del XV secolo, assurse a capitale dell’ebraismo veneto: non solo vi operavano i banchi di prestito feneratizio, ma vi trovarono sede l’unica sinagoga ufficiale, l’ostello e il cimitero. Purtroppo nessuna di queste testimonianze si è preservata, e la stessa memoria di quella comunità si è presto cancellata. Una vicenda molto simile si è prodotta a Treviso, primario centro ashkenazita, scomparso a fine Quattrocento, a differenza di Padova, sola tra le maggiori e più antiche comunità ebraiche a superare i secoli, senza mai poter contendere la primazia al Ghetto di Venezia. / ENGLISH: A history of the Jewish presence in Venice and in the Serenissima Republic before the establishment of the Venice Ghetto had not yet been written, because there was no relevant investigation into the documentary sources of archives and libraries. On the occasion of the celebrations for the five hundred years of the Ghetto, it was still maintained that only from 1516 did the Jews settle in the city. This book, the result of twenty years of systematic research, intends to controvert that myth, which is an integral part of the larger myth of Venice. The documentary scope covers almost three hundred years (between the mid- thirteenth century and the second decade of the sixteenth century), that is, from the first ascertained presence of Jews to their definitive settlement in the urban area called the Ghetto, in a particularly troubled period of Venetian history. In this historical context, Mestre had special importance, becoming, close to the fifteenth century, the capital of Venetian Judaism: not only did the loan banks operate there, but there were also the only official synagogue (with relative cult and rabbinate), the hostel for those who had business to see to in the capital, and the cemetery. Unfortunately, none of these testimonies was preserved, and the very memory of that community was soon erased. A very similar story took place in Treviso, a primary Ashkenazi centre, which disappeared at the end of the fifteenth century, unlike Padua that was the only one, among the largest and oldest Jewish communities, to overcome the centuries, without ever being able to contend for primacy with the Venice Ghetto.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ghetto, Jews, Middle Ages, Republic of Venice
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History D History General and Old World > DG Italy
Depositing User:	dr Vincenzo De Luise
Date Deposited:	17 Mar 2024 09:55
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2024 09:55
URI:	http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/6885

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