Umberto Cassuto

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Umberto Cassuto
משה דוד קָאסוּטוֹ‎
Cassuto in the 1940s
Born	(1883-09-16)16 September 1883 Firenze, Italy
Died	18 December 1951(1951-12-18) (aged 68) Jerusalem, Israel
Resting place	Sanhedria Cemetery

Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto (16 September 1883 – 19 December 1951), was an Italian historian, a rabbi, and a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Ugaritic literature,^[1] in the University of Florence, then at the University of Rome La Sapienza. When the 1938 anti-Semitic Italian racial laws forced him from this position, he moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.