Loans, schmattes, and medical care.

Preserving Venice’s historic synagogues.

And commemorates the establishment of the first ghetto.

A foundation created by the fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg has begun a project to restore Venice’s former ghetto in order to preserve the memory. . .

The 17th-century Venetian rabbi Leone da Modena pulled off, at age thirteen, a literary marvel: a Hebrew poem that sounds and means almost the same. . .