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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Italian clergy, Italian rabbis, Kalonymos family, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Isaac Samuel Reggio, Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Isaac Lampronti, Christoph Anton Migazzi, Israel Zolli, Joseph Colon Trabotto, Azariah dei Rossi, Judah Messer Leon, Solomon Ayllon, Sinigaglia family, Isaiah di Trani, Riccardo Pacifici, Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Menahem Azariah da Fano, Meir ben Isaac Katzenellenbogen, Gerard Segarelli, Hillel ben Samuel, Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, Isaiah di Trani the Younger, Jedidiah Norzi, Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen, Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph, Samuel Hirsch Margulies, Samuel Aboab, Menahem Recanati, Menahem ben Solomon, Judah Moscato, Simone Luzzatto, Castellazzo family, Samson Morpurgo, Abraham Isaac Castello, Jacob ben Judah Landau, Judah ben Eliezer ha-Levi Minz, Lelio Cantoni, Moshe Provencal, Pietro Bernardino, Moses Levi Ehrenreich, Marco Mortara, Mordecai Ghirondi, Ezra ben Isaac Fano, Antonio De Rosso, Simchah ben Abraham Calimani, Jehiel ben Samuel Pisa, Abraham ben Judah Minz, Chayyim Moses ben Isaiah Azriel Cantarini, Tzvi-Peretz Hayot, Moses Chayyim Catalan, Jacob Raphael Saraval, Joseph Fiametta, Simcha of Rome, Domenico Maselli, Abraham ben Solomon Treves, Judah ben Samuel ha-Kohen Cantarini, Jacob Fano, Eliezer ben Samuel of Verona, Riccardo Di Segni, Moses Pinheiro, Raphael Isaiah Azulai, Azarya ben Ephraim Figo, Shabbethai Panzieri, Daniel ben Judah, Davide Lazzeretti, Gabriel Barletta, Samuel Uziel, Joseph Uziel. Excerpt: Kalonymos or Kalonymus (Hebrew: ) is a prominent Jewish family originally from Lucca, Italy, which, after the settlement at Mainz and Speyer of several of its members, took during many generations a leading part in the development of Jewish learning in Germany. The family is according to many considered the foundation of Hachmei and Hasidei Ashkenaz. The name ought reall...