Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Mediterranean Historical Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,2 (1991) 180-189
Keywords:
Jewish ghettos
;
Jews
;
Jews History 1500-1800
Abstract:
Traces the first stages of Jewish organization in the New Ghetto of Venice (1516-21), where the recently segregated Jewish population lived in very crowded conditions, had to pay very high rents for houses, wells, and even the public square, and could not legally own real estate. Describes the long, hard struggle of the Jews to obtain property rights on their ghetto houses (i.e. "hazakah, " a term adopted in the Venetian dialect as "hereditary leaseholding" and "house"), the heavy taxation, and gift obligations to landlords.
Note:
Appeared also in "Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Mediterranean World after 1492", 1992.
DOI:
10.1080/09518969108569621
URL:
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