tours, offered by the Jewish Community Museum). Chabad of Venice also runs a pastry shop and a restaurant named "Gam Gam" in the Ghetto. Sabbath meals are served at the restaurant's outdoor tables along the Cannaregio Canal with views of the Guglie Bridge near the Grand Canal. In the novel Much Ado About Jesse Kaplan the restaurant is the site of a historical mystery. Every year for the festival of Sukkot a sukkah is built on a canal boat that tours the city, a large menorah tours the city on a canal boat during Hanukkah. Notable residents Notable residents of the Ghetto have included Leon of Modena, whose family originated in France, as well as his disciple Sara Copia Sullam. She was an accomplished writer, debater (through letters), and even hosted her own salon. Meir Magino, the famous glassmaker also came from the ghetto. In fiction Amitav Ghosh 2019 novel Gun Island links the Sundarbans to Venice and the Ghetto. Geraldine Brooks' 2008 novel People of the Book which traces the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah has a chapter with action taking place in 1609 in the Venetian Ghetto. Sarah Dunant's novel In the Company of the Courtesan, written in 2006, has some scenes which take place in a Jewish pawnshop in the Ghetto Susanna Clarke's 2004 novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell features a scene in the Ghetto. Hugo Pratt's Fable of Venice. Corto Maltese, Book 8. Graphic Novel. IDW Publishing. Rainer Maria Rilke: Eine Szene aus dem Ghetto. in: Rilke: Geschichten von lieben Gott. Insel, Leipzig 1931, Argon, Berlin 2006. (div. weitere Ausg.) William Shakespeare's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, including in adaptations and related work such as Arnold Wesker's play The Merchant (1978) and Mirjam Pressler's novel Shylocks Tochter. The trilogy by Israel Zangwill: Kinder des Ghetto. 1897. Cronbach, Berlin 1897, 1913 (German) Träumer des Ghetto. 1898. Cronbach, Berlin 1908, 1922 (German) Komödien des Ghetto. 1907. Cronbach, Berlin 1910 (German) Daniel Silva: A Death in Vienna. 2004. Novel (features scenes in Cannaregio). Noah Gordon: The Jerusalem Diamond (1979) includes several chapters based in the ghetto of the 1500s. See also Moses Soave History of the Jews in Venice Fondaco dei Turchi Fondaco dei Tedeschi References Notes Bibliography Ariel Toaff, "Getto - Ghetto," The American Sephardi 6:1/2 (1973): 71-77. Sandra Debenedetti-Stow, "The etymology of “ghetto”: new evidence from Rome", Jewish History, Volume 6, Issue 1 - 2,