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The ghetto on the lagoon

A person in black clothing and a hat by a bridge and stairs in a historic area, with buildings and signs in the background.

Sixteenth-century Venice wanted to expel its Jews but couldn’t do without them. Its compromise was the world’s first ghetto

– by Alexander Lee

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