Riccardo Calimani, whose ancestors come from the Jewish ghetto of Venice, vividly recounts the tumultuous life of the Jews in the Serenissima in this book. He brings old sources to life by weaving them together with the biographies of great scholars, artists, merchants, and the everyday stories of ordinary people. Calimani's "The History of the Ghetto of Venice 1516 - 2016," published by the European Janusz Korczak Academy, can be considered a standard work on the first ghetto and Jewish life in Venice up to the present day.