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Hannover, Nathan Nata

Prague, 1660

PJ4831.H36 1660


Nathan Nata of Hannover is well known for his Yeven Metsulah (Venice, 1653), which chronicles the horrors of the 1648-49 Chmielnicki massacres of Jews in the Ukraine, from whence he fled to Venice.  This book, by the same author, is a phrase book including Hebrew, German, Italian, and Latin, all in Hebrew characters, written to assist refugees like himself in settling into their new lands.

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