Letters

Edition, Translation and Introduction
Nachdruck 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-019492-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Hebrew, Englisch, Portuguese, Band 40, 193 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

Reihe: Studia Judaica

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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abravanel, Isaac

Cohen Skalli, Cedric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Cedric Cohen Skalli, Shalem Center of Jerusalem, Israel.

Cedric Cohen Skalli, Shalem Center of Jerusalem, Israel.