Letters : Edition, Translation and Introduction /
Abravanel, Isaac
Letters : Edition, Translation and Introduction / Isaac Abravanel; Cedric Cohen Skalli. - 1 online resource (193 p.) - Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 40 0585-5306 ; .
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Letters. Edition and Translation -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In Hebrew.
9783110194920 9783110896664
10.1515/9783110896664 doi
Jewish philosophers--Correspondence.
Jewish statesmen--Italy--Correspondence.
Jewish statesmen--Portugal--Correspondence.
Jewish statesmen--Spain--Correspondence.
Rabbis--Correspondence.
Humanismus.
Juden /Geschichte.
Renaissance.
RELIGION / Judaism / History.
Humanism. Letter writting. Renaissance Judaism. Renaissance Portuguese literature.
BM755.A25 / A4 2007
296.3092
Letters : Edition, Translation and Introduction / Isaac Abravanel; Cedric Cohen Skalli. - 1 online resource (193 p.) - Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 40 0585-5306 ; .
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Letters. Edition and Translation -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In Hebrew.
9783110194920 9783110896664
10.1515/9783110896664 doi
Jewish philosophers--Correspondence.
Jewish statesmen--Italy--Correspondence.
Jewish statesmen--Portugal--Correspondence.
Jewish statesmen--Spain--Correspondence.
Rabbis--Correspondence.
Humanismus.
Juden /Geschichte.
Renaissance.
RELIGION / Judaism / History.
Humanism. Letter writting. Renaissance Judaism. Renaissance Portuguese literature.
BM755.A25 / A4 2007
296.3092