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…
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