Samuel David Luzzatto

Samuel David Luzzatto, known as Shadal, was born in Trieste in 1800. His father, a turner by trade, was also a learned Talmudist; at the city's Talmud Torah, the boy studied the Talmud and ancient and modern languages. He lost his mother at the age of fourteen and had to help support the household, before living on private lessons and articles for the Hebrew journals. Appointed professor at the rabbinical college of Padua in 1829, he taught there until his death on 30 September 1865. The first Jewish scholar to turn to Syriac for the study of the Bible, he reproached Maimonides for his Aristotelianism.

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• Poetryכנור נעיםSamuel David Luzzatto · 1825not translated into EnglishLiterature