Where, at night, all routes leading in an out of the Ghetto were guarded and sealed by locked gates. The Jews had limitations set on their economic activities in Venice. They were only allowed to have pawn shops, trade textiles and practice medicine. Whenever the Jews left the Ghetto area the men had to wear a yellow circle stitched on the left shoulder, while the women wore a yellow scarf. The first Jews to settle in the ghetto of Venice were central European Ashkenazim, constructed two synagogues. In 1528, the Scola Grande Tedesca was built, and later in 1532, the Scola Canton. They are still intact, and occupy the rooms above and adjacent to the Jewish museum. In an area where space was limited, the Jews had no real choice but to build their synagogues in the attic stories of buildings as Jewish law forbids that anything should come between the synagogue and the sky. The next group of Jews to arrive in Venice was the Levantine, who got their neighborhood granted to them in 1541, as part of an expansion of the Jewish ghetto. The Levantine practiced Sephardic
Where, at night, all routes leading in an out of the Ghetto were guarded and sealed by locked gates. The Jews had limitations set on their economic activities in Venice. They were only allowed to have pawn shops, trade textiles and practice medicine. Whenever the Jews left the Ghetto area the men had to wear a yellow circle stitched on the left shoulder, while the women wore a yellow scarf. The first Jews to settle in the ghetto of Venice were central European Ashkenazim, constructed two synagogues. In 1528, the Scola Grande Tedesca was built, and later in 1532, the Scola Canton. They are still intact, and occupy the rooms above and adjacent to the Jewish museum. In an area where space was limited, the Jews had no real choice but to build their synagogues in the attic stories of buildings as Jewish law forbids that anything should come between the synagogue and the sky. The next group of Jews to arrive in Venice was the Levantine, who got their neighborhood granted to them in 1541, as part of an expansion of the Jewish ghetto. The Levantine practiced Sephardic