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Lot #    20845
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 10:36:11 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Brevi Cenni
Author    Raffaello Prato
City    Firenze
Publisher    Galleti e Cassuto
Publication Date    1900
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 16 pp. octavo 238:162 mm., light age staining, wide margins, loose in the original wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    Monograph extolling the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano by Raffaello Prato. It begins with the founding of the Collegio under the Austrians and continues describing its history and activities. The Collegio Rabbinico Italiano (Italian rabbinical college) was the first modern institution of its kind, inaugurated in 1829 at Padua under the name Istituto Convitto Rabbinico through the efforts of I.S. Reggio and under the direction of L. Della Torre and S.D. Luzzatto. Among its alumni were L. Cantoni, S. Gentilomo, A. Lattes, E. Lolli, F. Luzzatto, A. Mainster, and M. Mortara. After Luzzatto and Della Torre's deaths, the institute underwent a series of crises and closed in 1871. It was reopened in Rome under its above name in 1887 and was directed by M.M. Ehrenreich. In 1899, after a period of suspended activity, it was moved to Florence under the direction of S.H. Margulies, with H.P. Chajes and I. Elbogen among its teachers; under them the college flourished. Among its alumni were E.S. Artom, U. Cassuto, D. Disegni, A. Pacifici, and D. Prato, who all exerted a marked influence on Italian Judaism. After the death of Margulies in 1922 the college, whether in Florence or in Rome, was never the same again. Back in Rome in 1934 and directed by the rabbi of the Rome community, R.A. Sacerdote, the collegio had U. Cassuto, I. Kahn, and D. Lattes among its teachers. After being closed during the later stages of the Fascist regime, the college was reopened in 1955. It published the Rivista Israelitica from 1904 until 1915, and the Annuario di Studi Ebraici, at intervals 1935–1969.
          
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Language:    Italian
  
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