Sefer 'Or Yisra'el
Footprint · http://data.judaicalink.org/data/footprints/footprint/21701
From footprints
- rdf:type
- Footprint
- Actor
- Marco Mortara (Owner)
- Date
- 1815?/1894
- Call number
- real-r.mtak.hu/1624/1/Kaufmann_B_49.pdf
- Copy
- 4063-5433-9474
- Evidence type
- Material evidence in extant copy
- Notes
Footprints information from Fabrizio Quaglia: On the spine, Marco Mortara’s printed sticker with a red frame. Dates based on life of the owner. Mortara, Marco: Born at Viadana (Mantua), 7 May 1815; died at Mantua, 2 February 1894, Mortara attended high school in Mantua, graduat…
Footprints information from Fabrizio Quaglia: On the spine, Marco Mortara’s printed sticker with a red frame. Dates based on life of the owner. Mortara, Marco: Born at Viadana (Mantua), 7 May 1815; died at Mantua, 2 February 1894, Mortara attended high school in Mantua, graduated from the rabbinical college of Padua in 1836, he was called as rabbi to Mantua in 1842, and occupied this position until his death. He wrote sermons, texts for conferences, funeral eulogies, letters and other works of various kinds, partly published and partly unpublished, collaborating with the main Italian periodicals of the time (such as “Rivista israelitica”, “L’Educatore israelitico”, “Il Vessillo israelitico”, “Il Corriere israelitico”), and foreign ones (such as the “Israelitische Annalen”, “Archives israélites”, “L’Univers israélite”). He summarized the conception he had developed of Judaism in his main work Il pensiero israelitico, Mantua, 1892). Mortara also wrote textbooks for religious instruction, essays on religious questions of the day, apologetic essays, and bibliographical works, among which is of special importance a list of all names pertaining to Jewish history in Italy under the title Mazkeret Ḥakme Iṭaliya. Indice Alfabetico dei Rabbini e Scrittori Israeliti di Cose Giudaiche in Italia (Padua, 1886). Introduced by his teacher Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865) at the Rabbinical College of Padua in the scientific spirit of the German Wissenschaft des Judentums, Mortara was always in close contact and collaborated with his leading exponents, who often asked him for rare manuscripts and precious texts. Politically, he enthusiastically greeted Mantua’s accession to the Kingdom of Italy. A central element of Mortara’s thought was the idea that the emancipation recognized to Jews in the Kingdom of Italy entailed a transition of Judaism from the original national-religious connotation to the exclusively religious one, with the consequence to integrate the Jews entirely into Italian life. Moreover, he was a precursor of dialogue with other religions and cultures although was very conservative in his religious views and as a true disciple of S.D. Luzzatto he was a strong opponent of Cabala. His preeminent library of Hebrew books and manuscripts, the latter almost all already belonging to the Mantuan doctor and pharmacist Samuel Vita Dalla Volta (1772-1853), was dispersed throughout the world, mainly enriching the collection of David Kaufmann (see ASHER SALAH, La biblioteca di Marco Mortara, pp. 149-168, in Nuovi studi in onore di Marco Mortara nel secondo centenario della nascita, below). Sources: The Jewish Encyclopedia, IX, New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1905, pp. 36-37; Nuovi studi in onore di Marco Mortara nel secondo centenario della nascita; a cura di Mauro Perani e Ermanno Finzi, Firenze, Giuntina, 2016.- Owner
- Marco Mortara
- Percent complete
- 81
- Place
- Mantova, Lombardy, Italy
- Evidence location
- Budapest, Hungary
- Title
- Sefer 'Or Yisra'el
- Verified
- false
- described at
- https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/footprint/21701/
- dcterms:date
- 1815? - 1894
- rdfs:label
- Sefer 'Or Yisra'el