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November 15, 2016

Azariah de’ Rossi, the Italian Rabbi Who Brought Renaissance Humanism to Jewish History

A controversial figure.

Influenced by emerging humanist scholarship, the Italian rabbi and physician Azariah de’ Rossi (ca. 1511-1578) became best known for his historical work entitled M’or Eynayim (“The Light of the Eyes”)—which also won him no small number of detractors. Eli Kavon writes:

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