Samuel di Castelnuovo, who lived at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth, was secretary of the Jewish community of Rome.
He edited and probably translated into Italian:
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Judah ha-Levi's
piyyut
A ''piyyut'' or ''piyut'' (plural piyyutim or piyutim, he, פִּיּוּטִים / פיוטים, פִּיּוּט / פיוט ; from Greek ποιητής ''poiētḗs'' "poet") is a Jewish liturgical poem, usually designated to be sung, ch ...
, ''Mi kamoka'', Venice, 1609, recited on the Sabbath preceding the Feast of
Purim
Purim (; , ; see Name below) is a Jewish holiday which commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an official of the Achaemenid Empire who was planning to have all of Persia's Jewish subjects killed, as recounted in the Book ...
.
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Moses Rieti's liturgic work, ''Ma'on ha-Shoalim'', Venice, 1609. The name ''Castelnuovo'' occurs also in a
halakic
''Halakha'' (; he, הֲלָכָה, ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws which is derived from the written and Oral Torah. Halakha is based on biblical command ...
decision of
Isaac Samuel Reggio
Isaac Samuel Reggio (YaShaR) (Hebrew: , ) (15 August 1784 – 29 August 1855) was an Austro-Italian scholar and rabbi. He was born and died in Gorizia. Reggio studied Hebrew and rabbinics under his father, Abraham Vita, later rabbi of Gorizia, acq ...
on the ritual bath, inserted in ''Mashbit Milchamot'', fol. 92.
Bibliography
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Steinschneider, Moritz, ''Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana'' cols. 1988, 2410
*—, in ''Monatsschrift'', xliii. 92, 311
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Mortara, Marco, ''Mazkeret Chakme Italiya: Indice Alfabetico dei Rabbini e Scrittori Israeliti di Cose Giudaiche in Italia'', Padua, 1887
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Berliner, Abraham, ''Geschichte der Juden in Rom, von der Aeltesten Zeit bis zur Gegenwart (2050 Jahre)'', 3 vols., 1893
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Writers from Rome
16th-century Italian Jews
17th-century Italian Jews