Creator Bio
Emanuele Levi
ca. 1811–?
Emanuele Levi is known to us through his precocious diary, written during the Restoration period of early nineteenth-century Italy. For a year and a half, Emanuele wrote about life as he experienced it in Asti, where he was sent at age eleven to attend the Jewish school. The diary was written in a copybook, reviewed by his tutor Lazzaro Artom, and forwarded each week to Emanuele’s parents.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Journal
We will compose a little book that will also serve as an amusement when, in ten years’ time, we want to look back into the past and observe what we lived through. All people have a weakness for…
Related Guide
Life Writing: Biography, Autobiography, and Ego Documents, 1750–1880
The famous and the obscure, women and men, in epitaphs and private letters, ethical wills, cookbooks, and religious reflections, all reflect aspects of Jewish life in a period of great transition.