Joanna Weinberg (trans. & ed.), ‘The Light of the Eyes’

Originally published in the Jewish Chronicle, 4th January 2002. “The Light of the Eyes” Azariah de Rossi, translated with annotations by Joanna Weinberg, Yale University Press, £48. The Me’or Enayim, (“Light of the Eyes”), by the extraordinary 16th-century Italian polymath, Azariah de Rossi, can rightly be said to be the seminal work of Jewish historiography. De…