Summary: Venice: 500 years ago by order of the Senate the first ghetto was born. It was the first of many "Jewish enclosures". A place to confine, it soon became an important cosmopolitan and commercial center of the Republic. The architectural structure of its housing, which became extraordinarily high to accommodate the increasing number of inhabitants, is strictly interlaced with the history, economy and culture of Venice. The city played a crucial role in the Jewish world, in the exchanges throughout the Mediterranean and in Italian art and culture.The Venetian word geto. from gettare, to throw away, named the area of Venice where foundries' scraps were accumulated. This was the area assigned to the Jews. The word, in the course of time, has become a synonym for segregation. Donatella Calabi has been professor of History of the City and its Territory at the IUAV University of Venice for thirty years (1974-2014).

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