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- Title
RAGUSA, IL SECONDO GHETTO: Una comunità di mercanti sefarditi nell' Adriatico orientale (1546-1667).
- Authors
LIGORIO, BENEDETTO
- Abstract
The ghetto of Dubrovnik is one of the oldest in Europe, second in age in the Adriatic region only to that of Venice. It was indeed as early as the 25th October 1546 that one of the major assemblies of the Republic of Dubrovnik's government - the council of the rogati - ordered the establishing a ghetto near the "stradun" and undertook the regulation of the rental price of the houses and the warehouses therein. But did the gate of the Dubrovnik ghetto really succeed in cleaving apart the overlapping worlds of Jews and Christians? And what was the autonomy that the Sephardim obtained in early modern Dubrovnik? An analysis of the economic and institutional sources of the town's history might help answer these questions. The establishment of a significant Sephardic community in Dubrovnik had greatly contributed to the expansion of inter-Adriatic trade networks, and to Dubrovnik's burgeoning role therein. This expansion, it must be noted, was not unrelated with the fact that many Sephardim opted to live outside the limited space of the ghetto and continued to mingle with the Christian population outside of it. Indeed, it was through the transactions occasioned by these iterations outside of the ghetto that the Sephardim forged, with local aristocrats and urban artisans, the very pragmatic economic politics of this mercantile Republic. In a way, the authorities in Dubrovnik created and sustained a peculiar community grounded in commercial activities.
- Subjects
DUBROVNIK (Croatia); JEWISH ghettos; SEPHARDIM; JEWISH history; HISTORY
- Publication
Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo, 2017, Vol 14, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
1827-7365
- Publication type
Article