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Article: Jewish cemetery in Venice languishes in neglected state
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
- Article date:
- December 19, 1995
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Ruth E. Gruber
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
12-19-1995
Jewish cemetery in Venice languishes in neglected state.
Nearly 180 years ago, when the great English poet Lord Byron lived here, he loved to go horseback riding on the Lido, the strip of island that protects the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea.
With companions such as fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, he would ride through what Shelley described as a sandy, windswept wasteland.
It was an especially haunting wasteland, however.
"The spot where we usually rode," wrote Byron's friend, British Consul Richard Belgrave Hoppner, "was a Jewish cemetery whose walls had been pulled down and stones overturned by the French."
The ancient Jewish ...
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