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Letters

Edition, Translation and Introduction

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

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. weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch, Hebräisch, Portugiesisch

ISBN: 978-3-11-019492-0 / 978-3110194920 / 9783110194920

Verlag: De Gruyter

Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2007

Seiten: 208

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Isaac Abravanel
Herausgegeben von Cedric Cohen Skalli

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