ISBN:
9781316691526
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 188 pages)
Year of publication:
2017
Parallel Title:
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Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1900
;
Getto
;
Juden
;
Wahrnehmung
;
Venedig
;
Venedig
;
Getto
;
Wahrnehmung
;
Geschichte 1500-1900
;
Venedig
;
Juden
;
Wahrnehmung
;
Geschichte 1500-1900
Abstract:
Margins as laboratories of urban planning -- Enclosures as topographies of vision -- Windows as sites of visual disturbance -- Walls as boundaries of the night
Abstract:
Dana E. Katz examines the Jewish ghetto of Venice as a paradox of urban space. In 1516, the Senate established the ghetto on the periphery of the city and legislated nocturnal curfews to reduce the Jews' visibility in Venice. Katz argues that it was precisely this practice of marginalization that put the ghetto on display for Christian and Jewish eyes. According to her research, early modern Venetians grounded their conceptions of the ghetto in discourses of sight. Katz's unique approach demonstrates how Venice's Jewish ghetto engaged the sensory imagination of its inhabitants in complex and contradictory ways that both shaped urban space and reshaped Christian-Jewish relations
Note:
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DOI:
10.1017/9781316691526
URL:
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