Pietosi
Pietosi [1]
is the name of a celebrated Jewish family, called in Hebrew מן הענוים , which, like the families מן התפוחים and מן הנערים , traced their origin to those Jews who were led into captivity after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus and Vespasian. To this family belong the following:
1. Benjamin De Ben-Abr., B.-Jech., B.-Abr. Rofe, of Rome, who flourished in the middle of the 13th century, is the author of שער עצ חיים , a didactic poem (Prague, 1598): — צפיוטים ושירים religious hymns. See Zunz, Synagogale Poesie, pages 313-315; id. Literaturgeschichte Der Synagog. Poesie, page 362 sq.; Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. Hebr. In Bibl. Bodl. page 2767 sq.; Dukes, Ozar Nachmad, 2:199.
2. Jacob De of Italy, wrote ברית יעקב , a great collectaneum of diverse matters (Livorno, 1800): רנו ליעקב , novellas on the treatises Chullin and Temura (ibid. 1810): — מזבה כפרה , another collectaneum (ibid.).
3. Zidkia De a brother of Benjamin, wrote הלקט שבלי , on Jewish rites and precepts (Venice, 1546; Sulzbach, 1699; Dubno, 1794). See Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. 1:1001; 3:961; 4:962; Schorr, Kritische Untersuchung Uber Das Werk Schibbale Ha-Leketh In Zijjon (Frankforton-the-Main, 1841), 1:147 sq.; Furst. Bibl. Jud. 3:100. (B.P.)
