Shakespeare's "Merchants of Venice" will be performed in the New Ghetto neighbourhood. Photo: Joanna Penn The 500th anniversary of the creation of the Venice ghetto is to be marked by an unprecedented ...

Shakespeare’s play “The Merchant of Venice” for the first time is being performed on the spot where some of the action takes place – the main square of the historic Venice Ghetto. The production, ...

When British author Harry Freedman asks audiences to name a historical Jew from Venice, one name almost always comes up: Shylock. The moneylender who sought a pound of flesh for a transaction gone ...

What if “The Merchant of Venice” were told from Shylock’s daughter’s perspective? That’s the conceit behind Sarah Mantell’s play “Everything that never happened”. You remember from Shakespeare Shylock ...

“We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are.” This is the Talmud quoting Shmuel ben Nachmani on dreams, but the observation speaks fittingly—and pointedly—to last summer’s commemoration ...

Last week, an international, multilingual cast performed Shakespeare’s controversial play, “The Merchant of Venice,” in the secluded main plaza of the city’s historic Jewish Ghetto. It was the first ...

Where once there were millions, there are now, at best, a few hundred thousand Yiddish speakers—mostly ultra-orthodox Jews, klezmer revivalists and academics. Still, for a people defined less by a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 500th anniversary of the creation of the Venice ghetto is to be marked by an unprecedented performance of Shakespeare's ...