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The Synagogues of the Ghetto

The facades of the Scola Grande Tedesca and the Scola Canton on Campo Ghetto Novo
The facades of the Scola Grande Tedesca and the Scola Canton on Campo Ghetto Novo Photo: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The ’schole’ are the Jewish temples of the Ghetto — five synagogues, one for each community that lived here between 1516 and 1797: Ashkenazi, Italian and Sephardi, the last in turn divided between the Natione Levantina (Turkey and the Greek islands) and the Natione Ponentina (Spain and Portugal).

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