The Venetian Ghetto
November 4, 2016 by J-Wire Staff
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ABC presenter Rachael Kohn will broadcast a program on the Venetian Ghetto on Radio National.
The world’s first ghetto, imposed on the Jews of Venice in 1516, was very different from its current meaning. Forced to live behind a locked gate with many restrictions, the Jews of Venice were neither impoverished nor uniform, but were diverse in language and religious rites.
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On Radio National on Sunday at 6:00p.m. and repeated on Wednesday at 9:00pm
Rachael Kohn is the producer/presenter of The Spirit of Things
