The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi by Leone Modena

The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi by Leone Modena

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Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community - a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. This work contains material about Jewish family life of the period, religion in daily life, the plague of 1630-1631, and crime.

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The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi by Leone Modena

Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community - a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. This work contains material about Jewish family life of the period, religion in daily life, the plague of 1630-1631, and crime.
Mark RCohen, Winner of the 2010 Goldziher Prize, The Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack College
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ISBN 13 9780691008240
ISBN 10 0691008248
Title The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi
Author Leone Modena
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Princeton University Press
Year published 1988-09-21
Number of pages 336
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