Davide Mano holds a PhD in history from Tel-Aviv University. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the EHESS-Paris and he is currently a lecturer in Hebrew language and literature at the University of Strasbourg. He is the author of numerous articles on the history of Tuscan Jewries (Pitigliano, Siena) with specific regard to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods (18th-19th centuries).