Rossi, Azariah dei (1511-1578)
Me’or 'Enayim [Light of the Eyes]
Mantua: [s.n.] 1574.

Dei Rossi, or Min ha-Adumim, was a descendant of a family that had reached Rome after the destruction of the Second Temple. His Light of the Eyes established the foundations of critical Jewish historiography. The three parts of the book cover a wide range of topics including the origins of the Septuagint, Jewish chronology and ethnography.

Ibn Susan, Issachar ben Mordecai, 1539-1572.
Sefer Ibur Shanim [Calculations of Leap Years]
Venice: Giovanni Di Gara, 1578.

Treatise on the Jewish calendar and a summary of all Jewish customs, written by a native of Fez, Morroco, who spent many years in Erets-Yisrael. Joseph Karo, was his neighbor in the city of Tsefat, and included Susan’s research in his magnum opus, Shulhan Arukh.

Josippon. Yiddish. 1743.
Sefer She'erit Yisra'el... ve-hu, Sefer Yosipon, bi-leshon Ashkenaz.
Amsterdam, Naphtali Hirz Levi and his son in law Koschmann, 1743.

An anonymous historical book, written in Biblical Hebrew style, in 953 C.E., and erroneously ascribed to Josephus Flavius, author of The Jewish Wars. The book immediately became popular and was translated into many European languages, including Yiddish, in which it enjoyed many editions. Menahem Mann Amelander of Amsterdam wrote a sequel called, She'erit Yisra'el, which chronicles Jewish history from the fall of Massada to the author’s own time in the eighteenth century.