This dictionary provides essential information on Jewish writers in 18th-century Italy and their work. It is an indispensable companion to scholars interested in Enlightenment Literature, a crucial period in Jewish history, marked by the dawn of the age of the ghettos, before Emancipation.

Asher Salah, Ph.D. (2004) in Hebrew Literature, INALCO, Paris, is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and History at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He has published extensively on Italian Jewish literature of the 18th century.