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<p>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 autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbulent life of his family in the Jewish ghetto of Venice. The text of this work is well known to Jewish scholars but has never before been translated from the original Hebrew, except in brief excerpt

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Author

Mark R. Cohen; Theodore K. Rabb; Howard E. Adelman; Natalie Zemon Davis; Benjamin C. I. Ravid

Publisher

N.J. : Princeton University Press

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691055299

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

3.5 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13