Category:Jewish Authorship--Italian

The Historia de' riti hebraici (1637) by Leone Modena is the first work in Italian language by a Jewish scholar to have a large international impact. Until now Italian Jews like Azariah de' Rossi and others, had contributed to the field with works in Hebrew. Modena wrote in Italian as his work aimed to reach out to a non-Jewish audience. Translated in several languages the book provided the first general introduction to post-biblical Jewish rituals and beliefs.

It was not until the mid of the 19th century that Italian Jewish scholars had the opportunity to publish books in Italian in the field with [[ ]], Giuseppe Rafaele Levi and Elia Benamozegh.

In the first half of the 20th century the leading scholars are Felice Momigliano (translator of the work of Claude Montefiore), Israel Zolli, Umberto Cassuto e il giovane Arnaldo Momigliano. Religious anti-Judaism, the Fascist regime, and then the Racial Law and the Holocaust destroyed any possibility of development of a Jewish school in the field.

After the war, Jewish scholars remained active especially in the field of Jewish-Hellenistic Studies with Calra Kraus Reggiani and Francesca Calabi. Writer [[