The ghetto on the lagoon

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

1516年威尼斯設立世界上第一個“隔都”，把猶太人集中到一座舊鑄造廠小島上。文章追溯這一名稱與制度的由來，說明它如何從宗教偏見與經濟需求的妥協中產生，並演變為描述各類隔離與排斥的通用詞。