The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judah by Leone Modena

The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judah

Leone Modena

336 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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. Modena (1571-1648) produced an auto...

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