Letters : : Edition, Translation and Introduction / / Isaac Abravanel; Cedric Cohen Skalli.
Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous “portraits” that have been painted of him by pre-modern and modern scholars. And still we hesitate and cannot discern...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | Hebrew |
Series: | Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Letters. Edition and Translation -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous “portraits” that have been painted of him by pre-modern and modern scholars. And still we hesitate and cannot discern which is the true one. This first critical edition of Abravanel’s Portuguese and Hebrew letters opens a unique window on a complex cultural process of assimilation and dissimulation of humanism among the fifteenth-century Jewish elite. On the one hand, it establishes Abravanel’s assimilation of Iberian humanism and of major aspects of the Petrarchian consolatio; on the other hand, it points at the strategies used by him to dissimulate and adapt humanism to Jewish leadership. The duality of Jewish humanists like Don Isaac was obviously a great richness, but it indicated as well their difficulty in expressing themselves coherently and comprehensively in one of the two agoras - Jewish or Christian – in which they were involved as literati and writers. The present edition and study of Abravanel’s Portuguese and Hebrew letters sheds a new light on the complexity of this new figure of the Jewish humanist. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110896664 9783110638165 9783110277135 9783110277050 |
ISSN: | 0585-5306 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110896664 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Isaac Abravanel; Cedric Cohen Skalli. |