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SAMUEL DAVID LUZZATTO (1800-1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 148 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:DAVID See also:LUZZATTO (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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