{"id":16796,"date":"2010-10-14T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T13:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=16796"},"modified":"2018-05-29T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:14:08","slug":"new-hebrew-enlightenment-book-by-pelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/new-hebrew-enlightenment-book-by-pelli\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hebrew Enlightenment Book by Pelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moshe Pelli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moshe is director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Judaic Studies and Abe and Tess Wise Endowed Professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/judaicstudies.cah.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Judaic Studies<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Central Florida<\/a> in Orlando, Fl. Pelli is a leading authority on the Hebrew Enlightenment. He has written extensively on the subject and has published eleven scholarly books and numerous research papers. 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