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How a 16th-Century Earthquake Created a Great Humanist Rabbi
Azariah de Rossi.
Perhaps more than any other figure, Norman Lamm embodied the Modern Orthodoxy of his era, even founding a journal whose name translates as “Torah and Secular Knowledge.” If there is a figure who likewise embodied the parallel attempt at synthesis during the Italian Renaissance, it would be the influential and controversial rabbi and polymath Azariah de Rossi. Henry Abramson explains how a 1570 earthquake in the city of Ferrara shaped de Rossi’s intellectual development. (Video, 7 minutes.)
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How a 16th-Century Earthquake Created a Great Humanist Rabbi
Azariah de Rossi.