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Don Isaac Abravanel - An Intellectual Biography (Hardcover)
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Don Isaac Abravanel - An Intellectual Biography (Hardcover)
Series: Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
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Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was one of the great inventors of
Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier, a
scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings, a preacher
and exegete, a prominent political actor in royal entourages and
Jewish communities, Abravanel was one of the greatest leaders and
thinkers of Iberian Jewry in the aftermath of the expulsion of
1492. This book, the first new intellectual biography of Abravanel
in twenty years, depicts his life in three cultural
milieus-Portugal, Castile, and post-expulsion Italy-and analyzes
his major literary accomplishments in each period. Abravanel was a
traditionalist with innovative ideas, a man with one foot in the
Middle Ages and the other in the Renaissance. An erudite scholar,
author of a monumental exegetical opus that is still studied today,
and an avid book collector, he was a transitional figure, defined
by an age of contradictions. Yet, it is these very contradictions
that make him such an important personality for understanding the
dawn of Jewish modernity.
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