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The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judah
The Autobiography of a SeventeenthCentury Venetian Rabbi Leon Modena's Life of Judah
Author: 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. Modena (1571-1648) produced an autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbulent life of his family in the Jewish ghetto of...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691055299
ISBN-10: 0691055297
Publication Date: 10/1988
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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