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Jewish Venice
Venice's Jewish community goes back at least to the 11th Century. As the Venetian Republic grew into a powerful trading nation, Jews flocked to Venice from Germany, Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, and points beyond. By the 1600s, there were an estimated 5,000 Jews living in Venice. Numbers declined after the Ghetto was created in 1516, and the last 200 or so Jews were shipped off to concentration camps during World War II. Today, Venice's Jewish population is growing again, although its numbers are small and are skewed toward Lubavicher Jews who have moved into Venice from other cities in Italy and abroad. For Orthodox Jewish tourists, the increased vitality of Venice's Jewish community means that kosher hotels and eating places are now readily available. Background reading:Venice's Ghetto
veniceforvisitors.com Museum:Jewish
Museum of Venice Hotels and restaurants:
Locanda
del Ghetto
Kosher House Giardino dei Melograni
Gam Gam Kosher
Restaurant Historical novel:
The Midwife of Venice About the author:
Durant Imboden has
written about Venice, Italy since 1996.
He covered Venice and European travel at About.com for 4-1/2 years before launching
Europe for Visitors (including
Venice for Visitors) with Cheryl
Imboden in 2001. |
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