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Menahem Lonzano
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian masoretic and midrashic scholar”. Today it says “rabbi”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “16th-century scholar and rabbi”. It now reads “Rabbi, Masoretic scholar, lexicographer, and poet”.
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Menahem ben Judah ben Menahem de Lonzano was a Palestinian Masoretic and midrashic scholar, lexicographer , and poet .1 He died after 1608 in Jerusalem . His nativity is unknown, but it has been supposed that he was born in Italy . According to Jellinek , who identified Lonzano with Longano, a seaport of Messenia , his home was Greece ; it may, however, have been Longono, a port of Tuscany near Livorno .2
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian masoretic and midrashic scholar”. Today it says “rabbi”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “16th-century scholar and rabbi”. It now reads “Rabbi, Masoretic scholar, lexicographer, and poet”. Read the current article and compare.
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palestinian masoretic and midrashic scholar
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rabbi
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