# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/umberto-cassuto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:13:16.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/umberto-cassuto"
name: "Umberto Cassuto"
slug: "umberto-cassuto"
description: "Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto, was an Italian historian, a rabbi, and a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Ugaritic literature, in the University of Florence, then at the University of Rome La Sapienza. When the 1938 antisemitic Italian racial laws forced him from this position, he moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
tagline: "Italian rabbi and scholar (1883-1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cassuto.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1883-09-16"
deathDate: "1951-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.774913333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Umberto Cassuto"
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    title: "Umberto Cassuto"
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    title: "Umberto Cassuto"
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    title: "משה דוד קאסוטו"
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    title: "Кассуто, Умберто"
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    title: "翁貝托·卡蘇托"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump