Elia Samuele Artom (1887-1965), scholar
Elia Samuele Artom (1887-1965) was a Jewish-Italian scholar.
Biography
Elia Samuele Artom was born in Italy.
He served as a rabbi in Florence, Turin, and Tripoli [Libia, then an Italian colony]. After the promulgation of the Racial Laws in Italy, he settled in Palestine in 1939.
In Palestine he worked as a high school teacher while often collaborating with his brother-in-law Umberto Cassuto in scholarly projects. He authored a multi-volume commentary to the Bible, and an annotated Hebrew translation of the OT Apocrypha.
Artom died in Israel in 1965.
References
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- Ha-sefarim ha-hisonim (Tel Aviv 1958-67)