During the 19th century, there were numerous businesses run by Jews outside the ghetto, particularly in Via Rastello, where many homes and shops were located.

In the second half of the century, in the building at number 8, Gabriele Eugenio Pincherle (born in 1865) and his wife Olga Lopez Perera (born in 1868) had opened a hardware store.

At number 12 Via Rastello, there was an important haberdashery and embroidery shop, owned by Giuseppe Moisè Michelstaedter (born in 1847), who lived there with his wife Clementina Bolaffio and his children Gilda, Guido and Emilio, cousins ​​of the philosopher Carlo Michelstaedter.