{"product_id":"shylocks-venice-the-remarkable-history-of-venices-jews-and-the-ghetto-hardcover","title":"Shylock's Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarry Freedman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe thrilling story of the Jews in Venice - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMillions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history - one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline. And essential to any history of Venice during its glory days is the story of its Jewish population. Venice gave the world the word ghetto. Astonishingly, the ghetto prison turned out to be as remarkable a place as the city of Venice itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith sound scholarship and a narrator's skill, Harry Freedman tells the story of Venice's Jews. From the founding of the ghetto in 1516, to the capture of Venice by Napoleon in 1797, he describes the remarkable cultural renaissance that took place in the Venice ghetto. Gates and walls notwithstanding, for the first time in European history Jews and Christians mingled intellectually, learned from each other, shared ideas and entered modernity together. When it came to culture, the ghetto walls were porous. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAny history of Venice and its Jews also can't avoid the story of Shakespeare's Shylock. The cultural and political revival in the Venice ghetto is often obscured from history by this fictional character. Who, we wonder, was Shylock? Would the people of Venice have recognized him and what did Shakespeare really think of him? Shakespeare's ambivalent anti-Semitism reflects attitudes to Jews in Elizabethan England - but as Freedman demonstrates, Shakespeare's myth is wholly ignorant of the literary, cultural and interfaith revival that Shylock would have experienced.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarry Freedman\u003c\/b\u003e is Britain's leading author of popular works of Jewish culture and history. His publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Talmud: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Murderous History of Bible Translations\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBritain's Jews.\u003c\/i\u003e He has a PhD on an Aramaic translation of the Bible from University of London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.29 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763897205024,"sku":"9781399407274","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/192ad34ab2f3a59e2348067bdf5501cd.webp?v=1780241658","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/shylocks-venice-the-remarkable-history-of-venices-jews-and-the-ghetto-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}