{"product_id":"9783110194920","title":"Letters : Edition, Translation and Introduction (Studia Judaica)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter 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, \u003cem\u003eStudia Judaica\u003c\/em\u003e, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCedric Cohen Skalli\u003c\/strong\u003e, Shalem Center of Jerusalem, Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\n\u003cem\u003eDavid Lemler in: Revue des Etudes Juives 1-2.168\/2009\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49167027929315,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":161.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9783110194920","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}