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Castelnuovo, Samuel Di
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
Secretary of the Jewish community of Rome; lived at the end of the sixteenth century and at the beginning of the seventeenth. He edited and probably translated into Italian: (1) Judah ha-Levi's piyyuṭ, "Mi kamoka," Venice, 1609, recited on the Sabbath preceding the Feast of Purim; (2) Moses Rieti's liturgic work, "Ma'on ha-Shoalim," Venice, 1609. Thename of Castelnuovo occurs also in a halakic decision of Reggio on the ritual bath, inserted in "Mashbit Milḥamot," fol. 92.
Bibliography:- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 1988, 2410;
- idem, in Monatsschrift, 43:92,311;
- Mortara, Indice, p. 11;
- Berliner, Gesch. der Juden in 2:54,215.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Castelnuovo, Samuel Di'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/c/castelnuovo-samuel-di.html. 1901.