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Letters - Edition, Translation and Introduction (Hebrew, Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
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Letters - Edition, Translation and Introduction (Hebrew, Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Series: Studia Judaica
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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.
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