The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi Leon Modena's Life of Judah |
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| Author:
| Modena, Leone |
| Editor:
| Cohen, Mark R. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-00824-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1988 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $53.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.