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MOSES HAYIM LUZZATTO (1707-1747)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 148 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOSES HAYIM See also:LUZZATTO (1707-1747)  , See also:Hebrew dramatist and mystic, was See also:born in See also:Padua 1707, and died at See also:Acre 1747 . He was influenced by See also:Isaac See also:Luria (q.v.) on the mystical See also:side, and on the poetical side by See also:Italian See also:drama of the school of See also:Guarini (q.v.) . He attacked See also:Leon of See also:Modena's See also:ant: Kabbalistic See also:treatises, and as a result of his conflict with the Venetian Rabbinate See also:left See also:Italy for See also:Amsterdam, where, like See also:Spinoza, he maintained him-self by grinding lenses . Here, in 1740, he wrote his popular religious See also:manual the Path of the Upright (Messilath Yesharim) and other ethical See also:works . He visited See also:London, but finally settled in See also:Palestine, where he died . See also:Luzzatto's most lasting See also:work is in the See also:realm of Hebrew drama . His best-known compositions are: the See also:Tower of Victory (Migdal `Oz) and See also:Glory to the Upright (Layesharim Tehillah) . Both of these dramas, which were not printed at the See also:time but were widely circulated in See also:manuscript, are of the type which preceded the Shakespearean See also:age—they are allegorical and all the characters are types . The beautiful Hebrew See also:style created a new school of Hebrew See also:poetry, and the Hebrew See also:renaissance which resulted from the career of See also:Moses Mendelssohn owed much to Luzzatto . See Gratz, See also:History of the See also:Jews, v. ch. vii . ; I . Abrahams, Jewish See also:Life in the See also:Middle Ages, pp .

19o, 268; N . Slouschz, The Renascence of Hebrew Literature, ch. i . (I .

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