Umberto Cassuto (M / Italy, Israel, 1883-1951), scholar

Umberto Cassuto (1883-1951) was a Jewish-Italian scholar. Historian, biblical and Semitic scholar. From 1922 to 1925 rabbi of Florence and director of Rabbinic Seminar there. In 1925 became professor of Hebrew and literature at the University of Florence and then at the University of Roma, La Sapienza. When in 1938 the anti-Semitic Laws forced him from his position, moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Works

Books

• Storia della letteratura ebraica post-biblica (1938 Cassuto), book

Essays

• Gli antichi manoscritti ebraici testé scoperti in Palestina (1950 Cassuto), essay
• Saggi degli antichi Salmi testé scoperti nei pressi di Gerico (1950 Cassuto), essay
• Letteratura ebraica antica (1961 Cassuto), essay]

External links

• Wikipedia / Wikipedia.it