Stepping into Venice’s Jewish Ghetto feels a bit like traveling back in time. On March 29, 1516, ... Giovanni Volpe’s store is the quarter’s most sought-after Jewish bakery.

Venice’s Jewish Ghetto was one of the first in the world. ... The Jews had been working in the city for centuries, but it was the first time that they were allowed to have their own quarter.

Venice's Jewish quarter contains kosher restaurants and bakeries. (Nancy Montgomery/Stars and Stripes) The gates are gone now, torn down by Napoleon in 1797.

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The crisis of the city’s Jewish population reflects a broader trend in Venice. With about 260,000 inhabitants, Venice is losing on average of 1,000 people each year, according to the last census.

Venice authorities launched a massive security action on July 11, apparently in response to a tip that the city’s centuries-old Jewish quarter, a popular tourist attraction, could be a terrorist ...

Stepping into Venice’s Jewish Ghetto feels a bit like traveling back in time. On March 29, 1516, the Venetian Senate gated the city’s Jews here near a cannon factory, in one of the earliest ...

VENICE — Through a narrow, fraying sottoportico, or Venetian alleyway, and across a wooden footbridge, there is a wide square enclosed by rows of multicolored buildings. Stepping into Venice’s Jewish ...

Venice’s frayed, shrinking 500-year-old Jewish Ghetto is planning a renaissance Down from a pre-Holocaust peak of 5,000, the city’s 450 remaining Jews face numerous struggles, including rising ...