Umberto Cassuto (M / Italy, Israel, 1883-1951), scholar
Umberto Cassuto (1883-1951) was a Jewish-Italian scholar
Biography
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.