Otolengo, Samuel Ben-David Ben-Jechiel, Of Casale
Otolengo, Samuel Ben-David Ben-Jechiel, Of Casale
a noted Italian rabbi, flourished for a while at Venice, and died at Padua Aug. 22,1718. He distinguished himself as a poet and grammarian, and published , the Mantle of Samuel, being extracts from the of Isaiah Horwitz (q.v.), to which he also wrote an Index (Venice, 1705): , extracts from the of Aaron Berechja befi-Moses ben-Nechemia of Modena, important for ascetic literature (ibid. 1701): Correctio seu institutio ponitentium, a ritual containing precepts, prayers, hymns, etc. (2d ed. Venice, 1719). See First, Bibl. Jud. 3:58; Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. 1:1094; 3:1080; Jocher, Allgesmeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, 3:1134. (B. P.)