Flaminio Servi
Flaminio Ephraim Servi (Hebrew: אפרים בן שלמה נחמיה סרוִי, romanized: Efra'im ben Shlomo Neḥemiah Servi; 24 December 1841 – 23 January 1904) was an Italian rabbi, writer, and editor.
Flaminio Servi | |
|---|---|
| Personal | |
| Born | 24 December 1841 |
| Died | 23 January 1904 (aged 62) |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Spouse | Elisa Osimo[1] |
| Position | Chief Rabbi of Casale Monferrato |
| Began | 1872 |
| Ended | 1904 |
Biography edit
Flaminio Servi was born in Pitigliano, Tuscany, to Fiore (née Castelnuovo) Samuele Servi. At the age of eleven he translated the Book of Proverbs, and completed a version of Psalms left unfinished by an elder brother who had died early in life.[2] He obtained the degree of chaver in his native town in 1864.[1] He afterwards studied at the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano and the University of Padua,[3] receiving the degree of hakham from Rabbi Moses Sorani in 1867.[1]
Servi served as rabbi in Monticelli from 1864 to 1867, after which he held the rabbinate of Mondovì. He was finally appointed chief rabbi of Casale Monferrato in 1872, a position he held until his death.[4]
Servi was a prolific writer, contributing a great number of essays on literature and Jewish studies to the Jewish journals of Italy, such as L'Educatore Israelita and Corriere Israelitico. He succeeded Giuseppe Levi as editor of L'Educatore upon the latter's death in 1874. He edited also the almanac Annuario della Famiglia Israelitica (Corfu, 1870–74) and Lunario Israelitico (Casale, 1881–1904).
He was created a Chevalier of the Crown of Italy in 1877.[2][5]
Selected publications edit
- Dell'istruzione e del culto nella università israelitica di Pitigliano. Florence. 1861.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Statistica degli Israeliti Italiani. Vercelli. 1866.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Elogio funebre di E. Osimo. Parma. 1867.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Parolle sulla tomba di A. Momigliano. Turin. 1867.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Versi per l'infanzia. Mondovi. 1868.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Elogio funebre di A. Momigliano. Turin. 1868.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Angelo Paggi e le sue opere. Corfu. 1871.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Gli israeliti d'Europa nella civiltà: memorie storiche, biografiche e statistiche dal 1789 al 1870. Turin: Foa. 1871. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t2k64tp3j.
- La Maggiorità religiosa. Casale. 1872.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Dante e gli Ebrei. Casale: G. Pane. 1893.
- Studii sulla Missione della Donna Israelità. Casale: G. Pane. 1903.
- Versi in Ebraicæ in Italiano.
References edit
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Haneman, Frederick T. (1905). "Servi, Flaminio Ephraim". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 205.
- ^ a b c Cavaglion, Alberto (2018). "Servi, Flaminio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 92. Treccani. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
- ^ a b Morais, Henry Samuel (1880). Eminent Israelites of the Nineteenth Century: A Series of Biographical Sketches. Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Co. pp. 325–238.
- ^ Carpi, Daniel (2007). "Servi, Flaminio". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- ^ "Of Interest to Jewish Readers". The New Era Illustrated Magazine. 4 (1): 215. December 1903.
- ^ Sokolow, Naḥum (1889). Sefer zikaron le-sofrei Israel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom [Memoir Book of Contemporary Jewish Writers] (in Hebrew). Warsaw. pp. 80–81.
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