The Venice Ghetto : a memory space that travels /
"The Venice Ghetto was founded in 1516 by the Venetian government as a segregated area of the city in which Jews were compelled to live. The world's first ghetto and the origin of the English word, the term simultaneously works to mark specific places and their histories, and as a global s...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2022]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. The archive : rooted memories. Hebrew books in the Venice Ghetto
- The ghetto's archival heritage
- Part II. The blueprint : global archetypes (1516-2016). Social and economic dimensions of Italian Jewish public life in the age of the ghetto
- Disruptive strategies in post-Shoah versions of The merchant of Venice
- The ghetto of Venice
- Part III. The map : a memory space that travels. Primo Levi, the ghetto, and The periodic table
- What the mellah was
- Part IV. The tourist : the future of memory. The poetry of Marjorie Agosín
- Metaphor and memory
- Afterword: The ghetto after the plague.