The purpose and the main aim of this conference was to analyse the role of music in the emancipation process that followed the abolition of the Italian ghettos. Changing or in some cases replacing completely the old music repertoire, especially in synagogue contexts, with new compositions often commissioned to non-Jewish composers, and introducing into theRead more
The past three decades have seen a sharp turn in historical scholarship on the institution of the ghetto. The thrust of the newest scholarship on the ghetto has been to portray the ghetto as a more ambivalent and paradoxical space—a space of legally imposed separation and concentration, to be sure, yet also of comings andRead more
On March 29, 1516, the Venetian Republic ordered that the Jews of Venice be restricted to a small island in the northern side of the city known as jeto novo, the island of the old foundry. A few decades later other Italian states (the State of the Church in 1555, the Medici’s Grand Duchy inRead more
