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The Life and Works of Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, Founder of Modern Hebrew LiteratureSimon Ginzburg

Jewish Mysticism & Kabbalah

The Life and Works of Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, Founder of Modern Hebrew Literature

by Simon Ginzburg

An early English biography of the Padua kabbalist and poet, drawing on his letters and the documents of the controversy over his maggid. Ginzburg emphasises Luzzatto's Hebrew dramas and poetry and presents him as a forerunner of modern Hebrew literature.

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