Arts in and of the Ghetto
Thursday, July 17

Each panel is broken down into different talks, questions and responses. The audio for each section is found at the bottom its box.

Visualizing the Life and Times of Il ghetto Veneziano
by Elisabeth Milkes Jerome.

A Basse-Danza by Guglielmo Ebreo, Jewish Dancing Master
by Joanna Harris.

Jews were known to be merchants, musicians and physicians in the 15th and 16th centuries. That is well documented in the various histories of Jewish Venice. But dancing masters? To the lay person, it seems extraordinary that an irrelevant art form would be the provenance of"people of the book,' expected to be cultured, educated, worldly and wise. Yet, an early treatise by Otto Kinkeldey details the teaching of Guglielmo Ebreo, a Jewish Dancing Master of the Renaissance and Barbara Sparti has continued the research in "Maestri did danza ebrei nel Rinasciemento italiano."

document Jewish Dancing Master Paper | Drawing 1 | La Scuola Canton Drawing

sound Audio for Panel Discussion

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