The Jews of Venice

The seventeenth-century Jews regarded Venice as 'the land of promise', where for a few generations they flourished almost free from constraint and prejudice.

The Jews of Venice never numbered more than 5,000 in a city that at times had over a quarter-of-a-million inhabitants. Yet they attained a level of intellectual achievement, commercial importance, wealth and social acceptance unparalleled elsewhere in Europe.

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