Figure 5.10: Venetian ghetto. In the sixteenth century, Venice’s Jewish population lived in a segregated, walled neighborhood called a ghetto. On the left is a map of this early ghetto. Though most of Venice’s Jews do not reside in the ghetto today, many attend religious services there, and the ghetto continues to be at the heart of Venetian Jewish life.
(a: Adapted from the Jewish Museum of Venice; b: LusoItaly/Alamy.)