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Article: Davis, Robert C., and Benjamin C. I. Ravid, eds. The Jews of Early Modern Venice.(Brief Article)
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- January 1, 2002
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 314 pp., $52.50, ISBN 0-8018-6512-3 Publication Date: March 2001
Venice's Jewish population began to grow rapidly after 1500 due to the Spanish Inquisition and the War of the League of Cambrai, which created the refugees who looked to Venice for economic and social respite. In Venice, Jews were confined to a closed district called the Ghetto. From that place, Jews took part in city life to a greater extent than almost all of Europe's other urban Jews, although they were set apart from the majority.
Robert C. Davis of Ohio State University and Benjamin C. I. Ravid of Brandeis, both published scholars, have edited ...