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From Ghetto to Cappella Lecture: Cracks in the Wall

Dr. Piergabriele Mancuso, Director of the Medici Archive Research Project and the Eugene Grant Research Program on Jewish History and Culture in Early Modern Europe in Florence, Italy, discusses the historical and sociological background of the world's first ghetto, constructed in Venice in 1516, how this new physical segregation was traversed by numerous exchanges and cross-religious interactions, and compelling musical developments within both Jewish and Catholic sacred repertoire that developed from the fascination of one religious culture with the Other. Click here to read the full article in English.