The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice

Dana E. Katz is Joshua C. Taylor Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities at Reed College, Oregon. Her research explores representations of religious difference in early modern Italy, with a particular focus on Jewish-Christian relations. Katz is the author of The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance (2008), as well as articles in The Art Bulletin, Art History, and Jewish History.

• Introduction; 1. Margins as laboratories of urban planning; 2. Enclosures as topographies of vision; 3. Windows as sites of visual disturbance; 4. Walls as boundaries of the night; Conclusion.

'In this original and beautifully illustrated book, Katz dissects the ghetto's architecture and visual appearance to understand how space and sight structured Jewish life and Jewish-Christian relations in early modern Venice.' Flora Cassen, H-Judaic