Isaac Abravanel Letters (Hardback) Studia Judaica

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Book Title
Letters
Title
Letters
Subtitle
Edition, Translation and Introduction
Contributor
Cedric Cohen Skalli (Edited by)
ISBN-10
3110194929
EAN
9783110194920
ISBN
9783110194920
Edition
Reprint 2012
Genre
Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic
Society & Culture
Release Year
2007
Release Date
08/20/2007
Country/Region of Manufacture
DE
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
DE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter
ISBN-10
3110194929
ISBN-13
9783110194920
eBay Product ID (ePID)
62087672

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
Hebrew
Publication Name
Letters : Edition, Translation and Introduction
Subject
Philosophers, Judaism / History, History & Surveys / Modern, Political, Modern / General, Jewish
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Isaac Abravanel
Series
Studia Judaica Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
"Les éditions Walter de Gruyter proposent pour la première fois une édition critique, une traduction et une étude conjointes des quatre lettres d'Isaac Abravanel [...]. L'étude, entièrement orientée vers une évaluation de l'integration de thèmes humanistes en monde juif, se serait peut-être trouvée enrichie par une analyse, en retour, de l'usage de thèmes juifs dans la lettre protugaise." David Lemler in: Revue des Etudes Juives 1-2.168/2009
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Series Volume Number
40
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Synopsis
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., 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., After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.

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