Letters - Edition, Translation and Introduction (Hebrew, Hardcover, Reprint 2012)

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.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Studia Judaica
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	August 2007
Authors:	Isaac Abravanel
Editors:	Cedric Cohen Skalli
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
Edition:	Reprint 2012
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-019492-0
Languages:	Hebrew
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
LSN:	3-11-019492-9
Barcode:	9783110194920

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