Cassuto David Edited (3 results)

Softbound. Condition: Good. Small square octavo, paper covers with minor wear, 64 pp., b/w photos, ink-stamps Text is in Hebrew.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 4th Edition. In Hebrew, vowelized (with nikud, with the vowels). 76 pages. 244 x 180 mm. Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto (16 September 1883 - 19 December 1951), was an Italian historian, a rabbi, and a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Ugaritic literature, in the University of Florence, then at the University of Rome La Sapienza. When the 1938 anti-Semitic Italian racial laws forced him out from this position, he immigrated to Erets Israel and taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Elia Samuele Artom (15 June1887 Turin, Italy - 25 February 1965, Rome, Italy) was an Italian rabbi and author. He graduated from the Rabbinical College in Florence and served as rabbi in various communities, including Tripoli, Libya, 1920-1923 and Florence 1926-1935, where he also taught at the university and at the Rabbinical College. He settled in Mandatory Palestine in 1939, but from 1953 to 1965 he spent part of the year in Italy, teaching at the Rabbinical Schools of Turin and Rome. Among his many pupils was his son Emanuele. Artom's son Reuven was killed in the battle of Motza during the Israel War of Independence in 1948. A close friendship bound Artom to the distinguished scholar Umberto Cassuto, who was his brother-in-law. Artom's work includes numerous biblical studies, and he also wrote on literature, grammar, history, halakhah, and Jewish thought. Artom's major work is a Hebrew commentary, with introduction, to the Bible and a Hebrew translation, commentary, and introduction to the Apocrypha (1958-1967).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. In Hebrew, vowelized (with nikud, with the vowels). 194 pages. 244 x 180 mm. Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto (16 September 1883 - 19 December 1951), was an Italian historian, a rabbi, and a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Ugaritic literature, in the University of Florence, then at the University of Rome La Sapienza. When the 1938 anti-Semitic Italian racial laws forced him out from this position, he immigrated to Erets Israel and taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Elia Samuele Artom (15 June1887 Turin, Italy - 25 February 1965, Rome, Italy) was an Italian rabbi and author. He graduated from the Rabbinical College in Florence and served as rabbi in various communities, including Tripoli, Libya, 1920-1923 and Florence 1926-1935, where he also taught at the university and at the Rabbinical College. He settled in Mandatory Palestine in 1939, but from 1953 to 1965 he spent part of the year in Italy, teaching at the Rabbinical Schools of Turin and Rome. Among his many pupils was his son Emanuele. Artom's son Reuven was killed in the battle of Motza during the Israel War of Independence in 1948. A close friendship bound Artom to the distinguished scholar Umberto Cassuto, who was his brother-in-law. Artom's work includes numerous biblical studies, and he also wrote on literature, grammar, history, halakhah, and Jewish thought. Artom's major work is a Hebrew commentary, with introduction, to the Bible and a Hebrew translation, commentary, and introduction to the Apocrypha (1958-1967).