The Hebrews in Portogruaro
The Jewish people were called back from Venice by the Magnifica Comunità of Portogruaro in 1575, so that they could run their financial activities there . The Municipality assigned to the Jewish Community a space to be used as a cemetery, to the north of the town, outside of the walls, beyond Porta San Gottardo. The cemetery had to be close to where they ran a pawnshop, which, according to some local historians, should be found in a building that still showed on its façade an inscribed plaque, later chiselled and by now illegible (Borgo San Gottardo, No. 9). The Hebrews stayed in the town until the opening of a pawnshop by the Municipality itself, in 1668.