The Jewish advance. (Chicago, Ill.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-03

translated the Hebrew hymns composed
by Noses Nieti, the Jewish Dante,
into italian. The translation in neat
stanzas and in terse rime was published
under the title of III 7empio." "Exhor-
tation", much larger religious poem,
composed by the Spanish rabbi, Bachia
Ibn Bakuda, which has been incorpor-
ated by the Spanish Portuguese Jews
into their rituals for the Day of Atone
ment, she also translated into Italian !;
furthermore, the great prayer of pen
ance by Rabbi Nissim, the same prayer
that, toward 1886 was rendered into
Spanish by the Spanish author, Miguel
or Daniel Levi de Barrios. These sew
eral translations of Debora Ascarelli
were printed in Venice in 1909, and were
dedicated to the authoress, perhaps not
entirely without her knowledge, by
David della Rocca, with the very nicely
turned motto: ITO pay the creditor
with his own coin, is something new"
Abiding to the trophies song by Rosa
Levi,-the apostate--a Jewish Italian
author halls Debora with the words :
''Let others sing of greater trophies won,
you glorify the nations fame"
A younger cotemporary of Debora
Ascarelli was one whose name geams
from the past with the genius and grace
that ever distinguished her.
SARA cop1A SULTAN
was born in Venice toward the close of
the sixteenth century. Her father,
Simon Coppio, man as respected and
wealthy as he was well-informed, the
same one mentioned with so much honor
by the learned and free-minded Ven
titan rabbi, Leon Modena, in his collec-
ton of sermons, which, composed by a
brother of Simon, were published in
1902 bestowed all his love and care
upon the education of his gifted daugh-
ter He was not disappointed in his
expectations. Sara spoke and wrote
italian and Spanish, understood Latin
as we'll as Greek, and was thus enabled
to read the Roman and Greek classics.
She was so familiar with the Hebrew
language that she read the holy writ in
the original text. Very early her poetic
talent developed itself; when still a
very young girl she wrote poems capable
of bearing the strongest criticism. OF
winning, cheerful demeanor, posses
sing a penetrating intellect and, with all
this, being rarely beautiful and modest,
Sara became the pride of the ghetto and
excited the admiration Of all who saw
and knew her.
Suddenly great blow fell upon the
young girl just budding into woman
hood: the death Of her father. For
some time he had suffered with gout and
other complaints, and in August of 1906
he was relieved by death. Sara now
found herself without masculine protec-
tion, surrounded by fancyful suitors and
bigoted friends who endeavored, by
means of flattery and caresses, to alien
ate her from the faith of her fathers.
This led her mother, Rachel Coppia, to
give her in marriage, at the commence
ment of the year 1914, to Jacob Sullam
an amiable, wealthy and intelligent
young Venitian, brother to the Moses
SULTAN to whom the musician and com
poser, Solomon Rossi of Mantua, dedi-
Gated his musical work, which appeared
in Venice in 1920, under the recommend
alton of Leon Modena. Virtuous and
noble under the parental roof, she was
also a most virtuous and loving wife.
Happy and contented Sara lived in
the midst of her family. Then her
cheerfulness, although not her nuptial
happiness, was dampened by the OBJ
strusiveness of a somewhat deranged,
sickly Christian author. ~
The Genoese Ansaldo Ceba,- this was
the name of the bigoted author-had
changed a diplomatic career, in which
he did not seem very prosperous, for
the robes of priest, and had then lived