Shylock's Venice
The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Continuum
- Date of Publication 15 February 2024
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781399407274
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 236x156x28 mm
- Weight 474 g
- Language English 652
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Long description:
The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice - and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters.
Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history - one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline. And essential to any history of Venice during its glory days is the story of its Jewish population. Venice gave the world the word ghetto. Astonishingly, the ghetto prison turned out to be as remarkable a place as the city of Venice itself.
With sound scholarship and a narrator's skill, Harry Freedman tells the story of Venice's Jews. From the founding of the ghetto in 1516, to the capture of Venice by Napoleon in 1797, he describes the remarkable cultural renaissance that took place in the Venice ghetto. Gates and walls notwithstanding, for the first time in European history Jews and Christians mingled intellectually, learned from each other, shared ideas and entered modernity together. When it came to culture, the ghetto walls were porous.
Any history of Venice and its Jews also can't avoid the story of Shakespeare's Shylock. The cultural and political revival in the Venice ghetto is often obscured from history by this fictional character. Who, we wonder, was Shylock? Would the people of Venice have recognized him and what did Shakespeare really think of him? Shakespeare's ambivalent anti-Semitism reflects attitudes to Jews in Elizabethan England - but as Freedman demonstrates, Shakespeare's myth is wholly ignorant of the literary, cultural and interfaith revival that Shylock would have experienced.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1 Crossing the Lagoon
2 Confrontation and Segregation
3 Crossing Boundaries
4 Concord and Dispute
5 More Trouble
6 Stability and Friction
7 The Lion Who Roared
8 Music and Culture in the Ghetto
9 Politics and Diplomacy
10 Edging Towards Modernity
11 Decline
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A Note on the Author
