Explorations: Ships of Fortune: Venice 'Ghetto'

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Description: Background to Channel 4 'The Day the World Took Off', shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Entering the first 'ghetto' in the world, in Venice, Alan Macfarlane describes the origins of the ghetto and the way in which the Jews helped to create the wealth of Venice, but were placed in a confined space outside normal society.
 
Created: 2018-03-08 17:51
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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