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Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination
The Venice Ghetto Working Group presents reflections from their 2016 summer workshop in Venice, Italy & the Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination Conference (February 18–19, 2015, UCSC).
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Gates and Channels: Venice’s Past and The Ghetto’s Future
The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. — Walter…
Erica Smeltzer
Dec 16, 2016
Venice after Venice
Venice after Venice
In the collective consciousness, Venice is the city of the Carnival, of the Doge’s Palace and of the Grand Canal. A tourist who arrives…
Sara Airoldi
Aug 1, 2016
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A Memory Space that Travels
A Memory Space that Travels
The Venice Ghetto
Katie Trostel
Jul 31, 2016
My Realization of the Venice Ghetto
My Realization of the Venice Ghetto
As a historian, I often find myself jealous of clinicians or engineers — professionals whose work is tangible, tactile, present, or alive…
Avigail Oren
Jul 30, 2016
Conference audio now available
As our conversation about the Venice Ghetto and Jewish space continues online, you can also reconsider the original conference proceedings…
Murray Baumgarten
Apr 29, 2015
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories: Narrating Life in a Divided City
My presentation’s intended focus on metamorphosis was drawn from some of the work that I do in my current research project on Prague, where…
Erica Smeltzer
Apr 28, 2015
Networked Jewish Memory in Tununa Mercado’s Yo nunca te prometí la eternidad (2005).
In her 2014 MLA Presidential Address entitled “Connective Histories in Vulnerable Times,” Marianne Hirsch calls us to position our work as…
Katie Trostel
Apr 23, 2015
“The Importance of the Venice Ghetto for Modern Jewish Studies”
The Venice Ghetto serves as the starting point from which to address questions of modern Jewish spaces…
Murray Baumgarten
Apr 14, 2015
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