Umberto Cassuto
Umberto Cassuto | |
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משה דוד קָאסוּטוֹ | |
Cassuto in the 1940s | |
| Born | 16 September 1883 Firenze, Italy |
| Died | 18 December 1951 (aged 68) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Resting place | Sanhedria Cemetery |
| Children | Nathan Cassuto |
Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto (16 September 1883 – 19 December 1951), was an Italian historian, a rabbi, and a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Ugaritic literature, in the University of Florence, then at the University of Rome La Sapienza. When the 1938 anti-Semitic Italian racial laws forced him from this position, he moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.