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Ghetto
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“Ghetto” was the name of a quarter of the city of Venice that in 1516 was set aside exclusively for Jews. It lay on the site of a former cannon foundry, from which it derived its name (It.
getto means “throwing” or “casting [bronze or iron]”). The segregation was decreed out of a desire to avert the wrath of God, which seemed to hang over the city because of lack of success in the war against the League of Cambrai. The thinking was that God’s anger had been kindled because thus far, in defiance of canonical rulings, Jews had been al…
