BENAMOZEGH, ELIA. - Jewish writer, b. in Livorno in 1823 and d. there in 1900. A rabbi, preacher and lecturer at the rabbinical college of Livorno, he published in Hebrew 'Emath mafgla' against Leone Modena's opposition to the Kabbalah (1858). Explanatory notes on the Targum of Onqelos (1858), a commentary on the Psalms (Nir lê-Dâwâdh, 1858), a commentary on the Pentateuch ('Em lam-miqrâ', 1862-65); a polemical writing against the anti-Kabbalism of S. D. Luzzatto (Ta'am laš-šadh, 1863); on the prohibition of the cremation of bodies (1866). In addition: Storia degli Esseni (Florence 1865); Morale juive et morale chrétienne (Paris 1867; ed. Pallière, Florence 1925); Teologia apologetica e dogmatica, I, Dio (Livorno 1877); Israël et l'humanité (Introduction, 1885; ed. Pallière, complete, Paris 1914). Under his influence Aimé Pallière converted to Judaism, and, after B.'s death, published in French his two most characteristic works.

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BIBL.: D. Lattes, Vita e opere di E. B., Livorno 1900; A. Pallière, Le sanctuaire inconnu, Paris 1926; English trans. by L. Waterman Wise, New York 1930; U. Cassuto, s. v. in Eur. Ind., IV, p. 79; A. M. Schindler, From Rom to Israel, in United Israel Bulletin, 3 (1947), pp. 3-6.

Eugenio Zolli

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