DELLA TORRE, LELIO. - Learned rabbi, b. in Cuneo on 11 Jan. 1805, d. in Padua on 9 July 1871. He taught from 1823 to 1829 at the Colonna-Finzi college in Turin, and then, until his death, at the rabbinical school in Padua.

He published a long series of brief studies on various subjects, from biblical exegesis to contemporary Jewish history. In particular he dealt with Talmudic questions, the ordinary subject matter of his teaching in Padua. He also composed short works of a religious-ascetic character and some Hebrew poems. These numerous writings were collected by his sons (Scritti sparsi, 2 vols., Padua 1908). As a translator, D. T. published Italian versions of the Psalms (Vienna 1845), of the ritual prayers of the Ashkenazi rite (ibid. 1846; Livorno 1905), of Talmudic treatises and of some biblical passages. He had also begun a commentary on the Psalms; but only the first fascicle of it appeared (Padua 1854).

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BIBL.: Biography in Scritti sparsi, I, Padua 1908, pp. 3-37; bibliographical list in Rivista di studi orientali, 5 (1913), pp. 175-78.

Angelo Penna

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Della Torre, Lelio

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