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Ghetto Vecchio, Ghetto Nuovo and Ghetto Nuovissimo
Ghetto Novo Square The ghetto is composed of the Ghetto Vecchio, the Ghetto Nuovo and the Ghetto Nuovissimo.
They constructed 5 synagogues, called scuole there:
The Scuola Grande Spagnola,
The Scuola Levantina,
The Scuola Grande Tedesca,
The Scuola Canton,
The Scuola Italiana.
The more important two are the Scuola Grande Spagnola and Levantina.
It is in Scuola Lavantina that is the famous staircase of the bimàh, which goes up towards the sky.
Wellhead Ghetto Nuovo Square
“I enter with emotion and respect here.
Synagogues are marvelous.
Diversity and internal beauty, rolls
and books encircled and lit by one
red which is the fervor of the heart.”
Philippe Sollers translated from:“
Venice Lovers Dictionary”.
The Venice Ghetto: A Small Manhattan
The population increased, but not the available space.The only resolution was to construct in height and to optimize this space.
Rio del Ghetto Canal The ghetto is small Manhattan of the Middle Ages: houses attain the 7 floors, scattered with tiny disorganized windows.
One imagines the cramped rooms which are behind narrow streets; no light, no nice stones, no even with any color, as in the rest of Venice area. Everything there is blacker, greyer, sadder, and even oppressive.
“We feel this reduced space,
this small city in the city,
in a more and more internal manner,
in the depths of us and from our islands:
and it is what counts beyond that
we see or of what it seems to us to see with eyes.”
Paolo Barbaro translated from:
“Little Sentimal Guide of Venice
Wellhead Campo Ghetto Nuovo
“Its windows like gouged out eyes,
ts sweating haggard facades
I do not know which reeks worse;
moldy dread or ruinous terror,
Which makes think at the same time
of Shylock in the stunk out city
of Nosferatu:
they expect to see the rats leaving.”
Julien Gracq
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