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LUZZATTO, SAMUEL DAVID (1800-1865) , Jewish scholar, was born at Trieste in 'Soo, and died at Padua in i865. He was the most distinguished of the Italian Jewish scholars of the 19th century. The first Jew to suggest emendations to the text of the Hebrew Bible, he edited Isaiah (1856-1867), and wrote a commentary on the Pentateuch (1871). His grammatical works were mostly written in Italian. He also contributed to the history of the Synagogue
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See Gratz, History of the Jews (Eng. trans.), v. 622 seq. ; N. Slouschz, The Renascence of Hebrew Literature, pp. 84-92; the Jewish Encyclopedia, viii. 225-226, with list
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