Dreamers of the Ghetto (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Dreamers of the GhettoThe first thing the child remembered was looking down from a window and seeing, ever so far below, green water ¿owing, and on it gondolas plying, and fishing-boats with colored sails, the men in them looking as small as children. For he was born in the Ghetto of Venice, on the seventh story of an ancient house. There were two more stories, up which he never went, and which remained strange re gions, leading towards the blue sky. A dusky staircase, with gaunt whitewashedwalls, led down and down - past doors whose lintels all bore little tin cases containing holy Hebrew words - into the narrow court of the oldest Ghetto in the world. A few yards to the right was a portico lead ing to the bank of a canal, but a grim iron gate barred the way. The water of another canal came right up to the back of the Ghetto, and cut off all egress that way and the oth er porticoes leading to the outer world were likewise pro vided with gates, guarded by Venetian watchmen. These gates were closed at midnight and opened in the morning, unless it was the Sabbath or'a Christian holiday, when they remained shut all day, so that no Jew could go in or out of the court, the street, the big and little square, and the one or two tiny alleys that made up the Ghetto. There were no roads in the Ghetto, any more than in the rest of Venice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.