Religious Reform in 19th Century Italy: Calls to Abolish Circumcision and Metsitsah be-peh

Religious Reform in 19th Century Italy: Calls to Abolish Circumcision and Metsitsah be-peh

Samuel Medoro (1788-1854)
Notebook, title page
Handwritten text conceived for a course held in the month of February and March, 1838, at the Rabbinical Seminary of Padua
Responsa, pages
Pages from the responsa of fourteen rabbis written in Italian between November 18th, 1847, and May 6th, 1852
Page with excerpts from an article published in the Gazzetta Medica Italiana
Province venete, 14 (1864)
Title page of Dr. Samuel Medoro's notebook
Credit: Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Pages from the responsa of fourteen rabbis written in Italian between November 18th, 1847, and May 6th, 1852
Credit: Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Page with excerpts from an article published in the Gazzetta Medica Italiana, province venete, 14 (1864)
Credit: Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania