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Esdra Pontremoli
Esdra Pontremoli (Chieri, 10 January 1818 – Vercelli, 1 February 1888) was an Italian rabbi, poet, writer, editor, teacher, pedagogist and member of the Pontremoli dynasty. He founded with Giuseppe Levi ''L'Educatore Israelita'', the first Jewish journal in Italy."Les Pontremoli, deux dynasties rabbiniques en Turquie et en Italie" Parigi, 1997on-line Biography Ezra Pontremoli was born in Ivrea in 1888, the son of rabbi Eliseo Graziado Pontremoli (born in Casale Monferrato in 1778 and died in Nice in 1851) and Bella Eleonora Olivetti (died in Nice in 1874, nephew of the banker :it:Laudadio Formiggini, Laudadio Formiggini), exponent of a wealthy family of bankers from Modena. On his mother's side, he was related to :it:Angelo Fortunato Formiggini, Angelo Fortunato Formiggini and to Camillo Olivetti, founder of the eponymous typewriter manufacturer. He was the brother of Raffaele Pontremoli, uncle of Emmanuel Pontremoli, Roberto Pontremoli and grandfather of Aldo Pontremoli, Mario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chakam
''Hakham'' (or ''Chakam(i), Haham(i), Hacham(i), Hach''; ) is a term in Judaism meaning a wise or skillful man; it often refers to someone who is a great Torah scholar. It can also refer to any cultured and learned person: "He who says a wise thing is called a ''Hakham'', even if he be not a Jew." Hence, in Talmudic-Midrashic literature, wise gentiles are commonly called ' ("wise men of the nations of the world"). In Sephardic usage, ''hakham'' is a synonym for "rabbi". In ancient times ''Hakham'' as an official title is found as early as the first Sanhedrin, after the reconstruction of that body, when the Hadrianic religious persecutions had ceased. In addition to the Simeon ben Gamliel, two other scholars stood at the head of the Sanhedrin, namely Nathan the Babylonian as ''Av Beit Din'' and Rabbi Meir as ''hakham''. Another hakham mentioned by name was Simon, the son of Judah ha-Nasi, who after the death of his father officiated as ''hakham'', with his elder brother the . The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1888 Deaths
Events January * January 3 – The great telescope (with an objective lens of diameter) at Lick Observatory in California is first used. * January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory and the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of them children on their way home from school. * January 13 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. * January 19 – The Battle of the Grapevine Creek, the last major conflict of the Hatfield–McCoy feud in the Southeastern United States. * January 21 – The Amateur Athletic Union is founded by William Buckingham Curtis in the United States. * January 26 – The Lawn Tennis Association is founded in England. February * February 27 – In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge, who proposes a scheme for sound film. March * March 8 – The Agriculture College of Utah (later Utah State University) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Poets
List of poets who wrote in Italian language, Italian (or Italian dialects). A *Antonio Abati *Luigi Alamanni *Aleardo Aleardi *Dante Alighieri *Cecco Angiolieri *Gabriele D'Annunzio *Ludovico Ariosto *Francis of Assisi B *Nanni Balestrini *Dario Bellezza *Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (Rome, Roman dialect) *Attilio Bertolucci *Carlo Betocchi *Alberta Bigagli *Giovanni Boccaccio *Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti *Carlo Bordini *Franco Buffoni *Michelangelo Buonarroti *Helle Busacca *Ignazio Buttitta (Sicily, Sicilian language) *Paolo Buzzi C *Dino Campana *Giorgio Caproni *Giosuè Carducci *Guido Cavalcanti *Roberto Carifi *Gabriello Chiabrera *Compagnetto da Prato D *Cielo d'Alcamo *Antonio De Santis (Italian and Larino, Larinese dialect) *Milo de Angelis *Fabrizio De André *Eugenio De Signoribus E *Muzi Epifani F *Caterina Franceschi Ferrucci *Alba Florio *Franco Fortini *Ugo Foscolo *Erminia Fuà Fusinato G *Alfonso Gatto *Giuseppe Giusti *Corrado Govoni *Guido G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Italian Rabbis
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontremoli (other)
Pontremoli is a small city in the north of Tuscany in Italy. Pontremoli may also refer to: People * Aldo Pontremoli, Italian physicist *Esdra Pontremoli, Italian poet, editor, rabbi. * Benjamin Pontremoli, Turkish poet and rabbi * Raphael Chiyya Pontremoli, Turkish poet and rabbi *Hiyya Pontremoli Hiyya Pontremoli (Smyrna, 17th century - Smyrna, 1823) was a Turkish rabbi and poet, member of the Pontremoli dynasty. Biography Hiyya Pontremoli was born in Smyrna to the famous rabbi Benjamin Pontremoli; he was an important rabbi of the History ..., Turkish poet and rabbi * Roberto Pontremoli, Italian insurer and entrepreneur {{Disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Encyclopedia
''The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day'' is an English-language encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on the history, culture, and state of Judaism up to the early 20th century. The encyclopedia's managing editor was Isidore Singer and the editorial board was chaired by Isaac K. Funk and Frank H. Vizetelly. The work's scholarship is still highly regarded. The American Jewish Archives deemed it "the most monumental Jewish scientific work of modern times", and Rabbi Joshua L. Segal said "for events prior to 1900, it is considered to offer a level of scholarship superior to either of the more recent Jewish encyclopedias written in English." It was originally published in 12 volumes between 1901 and 1906 by Funk & Wagnalls of New York, and reprinted in the 1960s by KTAV Publishing House. It is now in the public domain. Conception a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto I
Umberto I (; 14 March 1844 – 29 July 1900) was King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his assassination in 1900. His reign saw Italy's expansion into the Horn of Africa, as well as the creation of the Triple Alliance among Italy, Germany and Austria-Hungary. The son of Victor Emmanuel II and Adelaide of Austria, Umberto took part in the Italian Wars of Independence as a commander of the Royal Sardinian Army. He assumed the Italian throne in 1878 on the death of his father. A strong militarist, Umberto approved the alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, which was formalised in 1882. He also encouraged Italy's colonial efforts and oversaw the incorporation of Eritrea and Somalia into the Italian Empire. Domestically, Umberto faced increasing social unrest and serious economic difficulties. Tensions mounted as a result of public opposition to Italy's colonial wars, the spread of socialist ideas, and crackdowns on civil liberties. He was deeply loathed in left-wing ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'educatore Israelita
''L'Educatore Israelita'' (), known as ''Il Vessillo Israelitico'' () after 1874, was one of the first Jewish newspapers in Italy. The monthly periodical was founded in 1853 by . History ''L'Educatore Israelita'' was founded by Giuseppe Levi in 1853, who published the newspaper in conjunction with Esdra Pontremoli. It advocated moderate Jewish reform, to be brought about by the co-operation of all communities. S. D. Luzzatto, Lelio Della Torre, Lelio Cantoni, Crescenzo Altari, Marco Mortara, and Elia Benamozegh were among its contributors. After Levi's death in 1874 the periodical was continued in Casale by Flaminio Servi under the title ''Il Vessillo Israelitico'' ('The Israelite Banner'). During the early years of its existence under this title it contained essays from the pens of such men as Abraham Berliner, Salvatore De Benedetti, Pietro Perreau, Moses Soave, and Moritz Steinschneider; but later its importance as a literary and scientific journal deteriorated. Fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Pontremoli
Aldo Pontremoli (; 19 January 1896 – 25 May 1928) was an Italian physicist who held a chair of theoretical physics at the physics department of the University of Milan from 1926 and who founded and directed the Institute of Advanced Physics at the University of Milan from 1924 until his disappearance and presumed death in May 1928. Pontremoli was one of the six men who disappeared with the airborne envelope of the airship ''Italia'' after it had crashed on the Arctic ice on 25 May 1928. Education Pontremoli was educated in a ''liceo'' in Milan, where Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti was one of his teachers. After two years' further study at the Politecnico di Milano (Milan Polytechnic), he transferred to study physics at the Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza". His studies were interrupted when he volunteered for military service in World War I. He received both the Silver Medal of Military Valor and the Croce di Guerra. When he was ten he founded with his cousin Mario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Pontremoli
Roberto Pontremoli (born June 5, 1937) is an Italian insurance executive. From 1993 to 1999, he was CEO of the Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni ( INA), and in 1994, founded the Rotary International club of Milan. Biography Roberto Pontremoli was born to Mario Pontremoli and Maria Spangher (born in 1889 in Bari and died in Milan), member of a wealthy family of Venetian origin; her ancestor Cav. Giovanni Spangher (son of Johann Spangher) was an important manager of Credito Italiano. Pontremoli is related to his namesake Roberto Pontremoli. In 1943, due to the imminent war, he moved with his family to Switzerland where his father was already residing for work reasons, and at the end of the war in 1946, he returned to Milan. Graduated in law, he worked in a law firm and then joined the RAS company in May 1960. In 1972, he became managing director of the Padana Assicurazioni and Agip assicurazioni Spa companies belonging to the ENI group. In 1973 he convinced the top man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Pontremoli
Emmanuel Pontremoli (13 January 1865 – 25 July 1956) was a French architect and archaeologist. Biography Pontremonli was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, to a Jewish family from Piedmont; he studied in the ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André. In 1890, he won the Prix de Rome in the architecture category and in 1922 became a member of the Académie des Beaux Arts. He taught a clinical architecture studio at the Beaux-Arts, alongside André Leconte, a former student and winner of the 1927 Prix de Rome. Pontremoli was appointed director of the Beaux-Arts in 1932 and is credited with shepherding the school, whose name had become synonymous with neoclassicism, into the twentieth century. Pontremoli is best known for his architectural creation of Villa Kerylos for Théodore and Fanny Reinach at Beaulieu-sur-Mer and for the Institute for Human Paleontology in Paris for Albert I, Prince of Monaco. Family In 1899, he married Suzanne Hecht (1876-1956), with whom he had three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
