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Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
Moises Orfali
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Description for Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
Hardcover. From 1642 to 1654 Isaac Aboab da Fonseca was the hakham (Torah scholar) and spiritual leader of the oldest Jewish community in the New World. This monograph on Isaac Aboab da Fonseca and his intellectual and spiritual contributions, includes discussion of his commentary on the Pentateuch entitled "Parafrasis Comentada sobre el Pentateuco". Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLP1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 229. Weight in Grams: 368.
From 1642 to 1654 Isaac Aboab da Fonseca was the hakham (Torah scholar) and spiritual leader of the oldest Jewish community in the New World. As a Hebrew grammarian, a poet, and a mystic, as well as an excellent and very popular preacher, Aboab da Fonseca (born 1605) was not only one of the most interesting Jewish personalities of the seventeenth century, but his writings are an invaluable historical resource with regard to many aspects of Jewish life in Dutch Colonial Brazil, the local attitudes towards Jews, and corroboration of events outlined in contemporary literary sources. His forebears were so-called ... Read more
From 1642 to 1654 Isaac Aboab da Fonseca was the hakham (Torah scholar) and spiritual leader of the oldest Jewish community in the New World. As a Hebrew grammarian, a poet, and a mystic, as well as an excellent and very popular preacher, Aboab da Fonseca (born 1605) was not only one of the most interesting Jewish personalities of the seventeenth century, but his writings are an invaluable historical resource with regard to many aspects of Jewish life in Dutch Colonial Brazil, the local attitudes towards Jews, and corroboration of events outlined in contemporary literary sources. His forebears were so-called ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193546
SKU
V9781845193546
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99-50
About Moises Orfali
Moises Orfali is professor of Jewish History and former Dean of the Faculty of Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University (Israel), where he holds the Rabbi Hayim Lau Chair for The Study of Leadership in Times of Crisis. He has authored various books and articles on historical and cultural aspects of Jews and Conversos in the Iberian Peninsula and the Sephardi ... Read more
Reviews for Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
‘In this study, Moisés Orfali poses the question of what can be learned from this episode and the role Aboab played about leadership in times of crisis… This book is a welcome contribution to our knowledge of the Jewish communities of the early modern New World, and Orfali can be recommended to have undertaken this important job.’ Daniël Metz, Studia ... Read more