The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space that Travels

contents
Note on the Essays Venice Ghetto Collaboration
Foreword
Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I the Archive: Rooted Memories
1 Hebrew Books in the Venice Ghetto
2 the Ghetto’s Archival Heritage

PART II
3 Social and Economic Dimensions of Italian Jewish Public Life in the Age of the Ghetto4
4 Disruptive Strategies in Post-shoah Versions of the Merchant of Venice
5 the Ghetto of Venice Clive Sinclair Discusses Venice, Judaism and Shylock

PART II The Map: a Memory Space That Travels
6 Primo Levi, the Ghetto, and the Periodic Table
7 What the Mellah Was Imagining the Moroccan Jewish Quarter

PART IV the Tourist: the Future of Memory
8 the Poetry of Marjorie Agosín Writing-in-place in the World’s First Ghetto
9 Metaphor and Memory a Conversation on the Making of the Film El Hara

Afterword the Ghetto After the Plague
Index