Great German Synagogue
The Great German Synagogue—Italian *Scuola Grande Tedesca*—dates to 1528 and is the oldest Venetian synagogue, built by members of the local Ashkenazi community inside the Jewish Ghetto. The ghetto itself begins with the establishment of Ghetto Nuovo on 29 March 1516, and this synagogue is one of five that took shape there. Rather than “sinagoga,” Venetians called these places *scuole*, and a stone plaque on the west wall records its construction, paid for by two donors. It was the first public synagogue erected in the Ghetto Nuovo, and its existence signals the Ashkenazi community’s early influence—well before the more affluent Sephardi merchants arrived in the 1550s from Spain and the Levant. …
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