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The Jews arrived in Venice in the 13 century.

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Here are some policies against the Jews in Venice:

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Here are some policies against the Jews in Venice:

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Why were there even policies put against the Jews?

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Why were there even policies put against the Jews?

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when the Jews arrived in Venice, the government there were find with it and didn't fear it. But after some years the Venice Government was afraid the Judaism would encroach on certain economic spheres.

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One policy that was very limiting to the Jews was that merchants and money lenders had to pay a special additional tax of 5% on their import and export transactions.

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Another policy that limited the comfort of living for the Jews was that whenever the took a loan from the back, instead of them paying 4 percent the loan to the bank, it was 10% or even 12% for the jews. Meaning if they wanted to borrow 10 thousand dollars from the bank, they had to pay 1 thousand to the bank.

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These are a couple examples of the jobs they had:

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These are a couple examples of the jobs they had:

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In Venice, the Jews had many jobs such as shoe making, merchants, and money lenders.

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Why were some Jobs more difficult than usual?

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Why were some Jobs more difficult than usual?

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There are many reasons why jobs in Venice were harder for the Jews than the normal Italian non-Jew. First of all if you were Jewish and ran a store, many people would refuse to shop at that store just because your Jewish. This made it hard to get customers. Another reason why it was hard is that the government put special taxes on merchants and money lenders, that they had to pay 5% on all their import and export transactions.

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Another restriction put on the Jews by the government of Venice, was that they had to pay an annual tax of four thousand ducats. Back then 4000 ducats was worth a ton.

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The non-Jews in Venice were not great to the Jews at all, but they weren't terrible either. They were a little anti-Semitic but it was the government that was the most anti-Semitic, not the people. In fact, Venice people were less anti-Semitic that many other European countries at the time.

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For example England. England back then did not even allow Jews to step foot in England.
This shows us how much worse antisemitism was in some countries like England.

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In many European countries, Jews were not allowed to study torah, to a bar mitvah, and even weren't allowed to pray!!

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In many European countries, Jews were not allowed to study torah, to a bar mitvah, and even weren't allowed to pray!!

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In Venice, Jews WERE allowed to perform some Jewish practices such as: Brit Milah, Limud Torah, and even the Havdalah. BUT! Don't think that the Jews were allowed to go out in the streets shouting עם ישראל חי! over and over on Shavuot with a torah in the hand. The Jews had many restrictions that didn't allow them to do many simple Jewish mitzvot.

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Some years were great for the Jews in Venice, and some were miserable. It all depended on the restrictions and laws that the government decided to put on the Jews in that specific time.

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But overall, should the Jews move or not?

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But overall, should the Jews move or not?

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Absolutely not, one of the main reasons why I don't think the Jews should move to Venice is because of the Ghettos. At some point in time the government decided to send all the Jews into the ghetto. The ghetto was a miserable place to live, and had little food, it had tons of diseases, and it had little space.