Crescenzo Alatri

Crescenzo Alatri was an Italian writer; born at Rome, 1825; died February 12, 1897. He was educated in the Talmud Torah of his native city, and graduated as rabbi, but never held any office. Alatri was the author of a "History of the Jews in Rome," several extracts of which were published in the Educatore Israelita(1856), pp. 262 et seq. This work is still extant in manuscript. He is often mentioned as the Italian and French translator of Moses Hazan's Hebrew poems, and as one of the founders of the Società di Fratellanza, the aim of which was to educate poor Jewish children and to promote arts and handicrafts among the Jewish population.

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This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.

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Name	Alatri, Crescenzo
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Date of birth	1825
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Date of death	1897
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