Erin Maglaque · A Little of This Honey: What was the ghetto?
Historians argue that the Venetian ghetto was both an open-air prison and a bright spot in the darkness of early modern...
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Historians argue that the Venetian ghetto was both an open-air prison and a bright spot in the darkness of early modern...
How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.
In 1523, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. In this era of fierce rivalry between great powers, voyages of fantastic discovery, and brutal conquest of new lands, people throughout the Mediterranean saw the signs of an impending apocalypse and envisioned a coming war that would end with a decisive Christian or Islamic victory. With his army of hardy desert warriors from lost Israelite tribes, Reubeni pledged to deliver the Jews to the Holy Land by force and restore their pride and autonomy. He wou...