L’atto di morte del rabbino di Lugo Yiṣḥaq Berekyah da Fano III (1676-1750). Note per una ricostruzione biografica

Genealogical research, combined with the onomastic and prosopographical ones, allow us to investigate and reconstruct, the lives of eminent members of the Jewish bourgeoisie in Italy, such as rabbis, leaders and cabbalists, through manuscripts and historical sources. The Register of deaths of the Jews of Lugo di Romagna – a source of great importance compiled entirely in Hebrew between 1658 and 1825 and currently stored in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York – contains information on almost two centuries of the community’s history, with descriptions of Jewish funerary culture. This set of documents will enable to shed new light on influential personalities memoirs. Such an investigation was essential for the partial reconstruction of a branch of the family tree of the illustrious family da Fano, who lived between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries in Ferrara and Lugo, which boasts of the presence of the distinguished Rabbi and Talmudist, Emanuele Menahem Azaria Fano, said Rama, who was probably born in Lugo in 1548.