March 29, 2016 at The Jewish Community Library in San Francisco.
Free event with free garage parking on Pierce between Ellis and Eddy streets.
The exhibit “Il Ghetto: The Venice Ghetto at 500” opens with a program featuring two authorities on Jewish life in Venice, Murray Baumgarten and David M. Rosenberg-Wohl.
The Venice Ghetto, whose name derives from the Venetian word “geto” (foundry), was established in 1516 as a place of segregation. Within its relative security, however, the Jews prospered culturally, and the Ghetto became an important crossroads for diverse Jewish communities—Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Turkish, Italian—as well as a setting for dialogue between Jews and Christians.
Murray Baumgarten directs the program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is distinguished professor of English and comparative literature. He is a founding member of the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies and has lectured extensively on Venice and its Jews.
David M. Rosenberg-Wohl served as curator of the exhibition “Il Ghetto: Forging Italian Jewish Identities
1516-1870,” at San Francisco’s Museo Italo Americano in 2008-2009.
The lecture is co-sponsored by Lehrhaus Judaica and made possible, in part, by Rebekah and Chen Sapirstein.
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