Shakespeare in the Ghetto
eshkofest.ru Festival in Venice
eshkofest.ru’s Festival of Jewish Texts and Ideas
Venice
4-7 December, 2017
#eshkofest

CONCEPT

How can you navigate Venice against the flow of tourists who have exiled more than half of the city's population in the last few decades? Many hidden passages and blank spots on the map can be discovered by exploring the books written and printed in this city from right to left — in Hebrew, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish.

The aim of the eshkofest.ru's Festival of Jewish Texts and Ideas is to re-read classical ancient and modern books in their original urban context with live commentary from university scholars, as well as to re-interpret the city text of Venice through particular codes of Jewish literature.

The festival program includes lectures, reading workshops, thematic field trips and cultural events.

Festival talks
in eshkofest.ru online academy

Sanna Turoma. Russian Moor in Venice: Joseph Brodsky and Orientalism Avery Gosfield and Ensemble Lucidarium. Yiddish on the Rialtoи

Faculty

Shaul Bassi

Scholar of literature

Arnaud Bikard

Scholar of literature

Avery Gosfield

Musician

Yoel Regev

Philospher

Sanna Turoma

Scholar of literature

Giuseppe Balzano

Orientalist

Anna Campos

Book historian

Roberta Feoli

Artist

Aldo Izzo

Max Gorts

Guide

Ensemble Lucidarium

Music group
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Program

Lectures

Shakespeare in the Ghetto
Shylock Returns to Venice

Shaul Bassi, professor of English and postcolonial literature at Ca’Foscari University of Venice

REFRAMING THE GHETTO OF VENICE

Giuseppe Balzano

Mini-Courses

Knights in the Streets of the Ghetto
Yiddish Poetry of Italian Renaissance

Arnaud Bikard, scholar of literature at Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

Safed in Venice
Lurianic Kabbalah in Italy

Yoel Regev, guest professor of philosophy at the European University (St. Petersburg)

Russian Moor in Venice
Joseph Brodsky and Orientalism

Sanna Turoma, professor of Russian literature at the University of Helsinki

Field Trips

Printing Workshop at Scuola Grafica

LIDO JEWISH CEMETERY AND THE STORY OF A CAPTAIN

Aldo Izzo

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACES OF THE GHETTO

Giuseppe Balzano

Cultural events

Yiddish on the Rialto
the Soundscape of Jewish Venice

Avery Gosfield and Ensemble Lucidarium

The Luminous One under the Veil of Darkness
quest

Max Gorts

Hanukkah Desserts
of Venetian Jews

food seminar

Anna Campos

Old Songs and Dances of the Ghetto

Avery Gosfield and Ensemble Lucidarium
MEDIA AND TEXTS                                                                                                 

MEDIA AND TEXTS

 

 

VIDEO

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Texts

E-reader with background texts for the Festival

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SHAKESPEARE IN THE GHETTO

eshkofest.ru Festival in Venice

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READER

for eshkofest.ru’s Festival of Jewish Texts & Ideas

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Yiddish on the Rialto

Concert Program

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December 4-7, 2017, Venice, Italy

 

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The eshkofest.ru Festivals are supported by Genesis Philanthropy Group, private donors and the Avi Chai Foundation.