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Ghetto ebraico
Maze of narrow medieval lanes that once printed Europe's first Hebrew Bible before being sealed as a ghetto.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the old Jewish quarter of Bologna centers on via Valdonica in the late fourteen-hundreds, when a printer named Abraham ben Hayyim dei Tintori worked with a banker and a scholar to solve one of early printing's hardest technical puzzles. It follows that same neighborhood forward two generations, to the pope's order that turned these streets into a locked ghetto. Best heard standing near via dell'Inferno, where the vanished synagogue once stood.
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