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LUZZATTO, SAMUEL DAVID (1800-1865)

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LUZZATTO, See also:SAMUEL See also:DAVID (1800-1865) , Jewish See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Trieste in 'Soo, and died at See also:Padua in i865. He was the most distinguished of the See also:Italian Jewish scholars of the 19th See also:century. The first See also:Jew to suggest emendations to the See also:text of the See also:Hebrew See also:Bible, he edited See also:Isaiah (1856-1867), and wrote a commentary on the See also:Pentateuch (1871). His grammatical See also:works were mostly written in Italian. He also contributed to the See also:history of the See also:Synagogue See also:liturgy, and enjoys with Geiger (q.v.) and See also:Zunz (q.v.) the See also:honour of reviving See also:interest in the See also:medieval Hebrew hymnology and See also:secular See also:verse. See Gratz, History of the See also:Jews (Eng. trans.), v. 622 seq. ; N. Slouschz, The Renascence of Hebrew Literature, pp. 84-92; the Jewish Encyclopedia, viii. 225-226, with See also:list of works. (I.

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