The Italian Earthquake of 1570 that Changed Jewish Intellectual History @HenryAbramsonPhD
The Italian Earthquake of 1570 that Changed Jewish Intellectual History  @HenryAbramsonPhD
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A brief discussion of the work of Azariah da Rossi, an important 16th century Italian Jewish thinker whose experience with the earthquake of 1570 prompted him to write Me'or Enayim.

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