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Lot #    13780
Auction End Date    3/7/2006 12:53:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Lezioni di Storia Giudaica
Title (Hebrew)    il Giudaismo Illustrato
Author    [First Ed.] R. Samuel David Luzzatto
City    Padua
Publisher    Antonio Bianchi
Publication Date    1852
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. VI, [1], 343, [1] pp., 216:136 mm., wide margins, ligght age and damp staining, stamps, plate. A very good copy bound in contemporary half cloth boards, stained.
          
Detailed
Description		    Lessons in Bible by R. Samuel David Luzzatto (Shedal). Often referred to by the acronym of Shedal, the Italian scholar, philosopher, Bible commentator, and translator is descendent from a long line of scholars. He wrote his first Hebrew poem at the age of nine. His mother died when he was 13 and his father's pecuniary status declined seriously making it necessary for the young Luzzatto to assist his father in his work. His own wife died after a long illness, and he eventually married her sister. He survived two of his children - one Philoxenus (or Filosseno), had been a young man of especially great promise. Samuel David's translation of the Ashkenazi prayer book into Italian appeared in 1821/22, and that of the Italian rite in 1829. He established a regular correspondence with the Jewish scholar, Isaac Samuel Reggio, and through the efforts of the latter, Luzzatto was appointed professor of the newly established rabbinical college of Padua in 1829. There he spent the rest of his life teaching Bible, philology, philosophy, and Jewish history. His versatility and the scope of his learning are best seen in the mass of letters written to all the outstanding Jewish savants of the day - to Geiger, Zunz, Rapoport, Steinschneider and others. He wrote a Hebrew commentary on the Pentateuch and the Haftarot. It is in this type of work that his attitude to Judaism is revealed. He was a traditionalist and maintained a firm belief in revelation and treated the text of the Torah with sacred regard although he occasionally allowed himself to depart from the traditional phrasing of the words as reflected in the Masorah and the Talmud.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Italian, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica