Samuele Vita Zelman (; 1808,

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– 1885, Trieste) was an

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writer and poet. Zelman was educated at the rabbinical college of

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, where he was the favourite pupil of

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. He was the author of the following works: ''Kinah on the death of S. D. Luzzatto'' (Padua, 1865); ''Primi discorsi di Rab Melza'' (Trieste, 1854); ''Le Parole di un ignorante ai dotti'', directed against demagogic writers (Trieste, 1855); and ''Ha-nitzanim'', a collection of Hebrew poems (Trieste, 1883). A complete edition of his

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, elegiac poems, etc., was published by Vittorio Castiglione under the title ''Ne'im zemirot Shemuel, o, yelid kinor'' (Trieste, 1886). Some of his Hebrew poems are contained in the periodicals '' Bikkure ha-'ittim'' (vol. xi.) and ''Mosé'' (vols. v. and viii.).

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1808 births 1885 deaths 19th-century Italian Jews 19th-century Italian poets Italian male poets Hebrew-language poets Writers from Trieste 19th-century Italian male writers {{Judaism-bio-stub