03579nam 2200757Ia 450 991078842050332120230403225809.03-11-089666-410.1515/9783110896664(CKB)3360000000338857(EBL)3041875(SSID)ssj0000713905(PQKBManifestationID)11417299(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713905(PQKBWorkID)10663693(PQKB)10991148(MiAaPQ)EBC3041875(DE-B1597)57123(OCoLC)1013956998(OCoLC)840444941(DE-B1597)9783110896664(Au-PeEL)EBL3041875(CaPaEBR)ebr10597628(OCoLC)922944793(EXLCZ)99336000000033885720070706d2007 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrLettersBerlin ;New York Walter De Gruyter, Incc20071 online resource (212 p.)Studia Judaica ;Bd. 40Description based upon print version of record.3-11-019492-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Foreword --Contents --Introduction --The Letters. Edition and Translation --Appendices --Bibliography --IndexAlmost 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.Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ;Bd. 40.RabbisCorrespondenceJewish statesmenPortugalCorrespondenceJewish statesmenSpainCorrespondenceJewish statesmenItalyCorrespondenceJewish philosophersCorrespondenceHumanism.Letter writting.Renaissance Judaism.Renaissance Portuguese literature.RabbisJewish statesmenJewish statesmenJewish statesmenJewish philosophers296.3092BD 4256rvkAbravanel Isaac1437-1508.904461Cohen Skalli Cedric713720MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788420503321Letters3825523UNINA