Deborah Ascarelli
Deborah Ascarelli · Arts & Literature
Italian poet and translator who rendered Hebrew liturgical poetry into Italian verse.
c. 1550
Rome, Italy
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Deborah (Devorà) Ascarelli was a 16th-century Italian Jewish poet and translator in Rome who rendered Hebrew liturgical poetry into Italian verse and composed her own sonnets. Her collection 'L'abitacolo Degli Oranti' — likely the first printed book of work by a Jewish woman — was published in Venice in 1601. Educated within Rome's Jewish merchant community, she made sacred Hebrew texts accessible to Italian readers. She was Jewish.
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Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
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Italian poet and translator who rendered Hebrew liturgical poetry into Italian verse.
Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
