Italian Jewish scholar who taught at the rabbinical college of Padua. A pioneer of modern Jewish scholarship, he wrote Bible commentaries, Hebrew poetry and studies of Jewish liturgy and philosophy.
Scholar, poet and commentator · 1800–1865
Italian Jewish scholar who taught at the rabbinical college of Padua. A pioneer of modern Jewish scholarship, he wrote Bible commentaries, Hebrew poetry and studies of Jewish liturgy and philosophy.
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