The Hebrew writers of the Haskalah, the Jewish expression of the Enlightenment, greatly admired Luzatto's secular writings and deemed him the founder of modern Hebrew literature.
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He may have attended the University of Padua and certainly associated with a group of students there, known to dabble in mysticism and alchemy.
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The cantor of the Sephardic synagogue in Amsterdam, Hillel, worked with Luzzatto to set several of his poems to music.
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Among his other books are Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud (JPS, 1998), Seeking the Path of Life: Theological Meditations on the Nature of God, Life, Love and Death (Jewish Lights, 1993), Sketches for a Book of Psalms (Xlibris, 2000), and a commentary on Rabbi Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto's Mesillat Yesharim (Jewish Publication Society, 2010).