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One of the oddest, and perhaps one of the most poignant, reasons for a Purim occurred in 1607 in Verona. The Jews there had been confined to a ghetto since 1599.1t was their request that they be the holders of the keys to the gates, and that the ghetto thus be locked each night from the inside, not from the outside. The day this plea was granted, the 18th of Tammuz, was proclaimed a Purim! Its observance continued until Napoleon abolished the ghetto in 1797.