Forgotten giants : Sephardic Rabbis before and after the expulsion from Spain / Rabbi Yosef Bitton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bitton, Yosef, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rabbis--Spain--Biography.

Rabbis.

Hasidim--Spain--Biography.

Hasidim.

Spain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 121 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jerusalem : Gefen Publishing House, [2016]

Summary:

The Expulsion From Spain in 1492 is the central event of Spanish Jewish history. Forgotten Giants explores the lives, works, and ideas of twenty-six prominent Sephardic rabbis in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, in the time period straddling this upheaval. Three generations ate included: those who were born and lived in Spain, those who were born in Spain but left at a young age, and those who were sons of Spanish refugees. This fascinating series of tableaux of the lives of great Sephardic rabbis paints a vivid picture of Jewish life and thought in Spain before the 1492 expulsion (including the struggles of the rabbinical leadership against the missionary efforts of the Church to convert the Jews, and the theological debates of the fifteenth century), during the tumultuous years of exile from Spain and then Portugal, and after the reestablishment of the Sephardic communities in the Diaspora and in the Land of Israel. Rabbi Bit ton here revives the legacies of forgotten Sephardic giants and brings them to life for a new generation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The End of a Golden Era 1

Rabbi Hasdai Crescas (1340-1411) 3

Rabbi Yitzhak Canpanton (1360-1463) 7

Rabbi Shimon Duran (1361-1444) 12

Rabbi Yosef Albo (Ca. 1380-1444) 17

Rabbi Yitzhak Arama (1420-1494) 21

Part 2 The Exile 25

Rabbi Yitzhak Abarbanel (1437-1508) 27

Rabbi Avraham Saba (1440-1508) 31

Rabbi Yehuda Hayyat (Ca. 1450-Ca. 1510) 35

Rabbi Avraham Zacuto (1452-Ca. 1515) 39

Rabbi Yitzhak Caro (1458-1535) 43

Rabbi Shelomo Ibn Verga (1460-C.A. 1520) 47

Part 3 The First Sephardic Communities 51

Rabbi Ya'akov Ibn Habib (Ca. 1460-1516) 53

Rabbi Moshe Alashkar (1466-1541) 57

Rabbi Tam Ibn Yahya (1475-1542) 61

Rabbi David Ben Zimra (1479-1573) 65

Rabbi Yitzhak Delouya (Ca. 1480-Ca. 1572) 70

Part 4 From Castilla to Tzefat 75

Rabbi Ya'akov Berab (1474-1546) 77

Rabbi Levi Ibn Habib (Ca. 1480-Ca. 1545) 81

Rabbi Yosef Caro (1488-1575) 85

Rabbi Shelomo Serilio (1490-1555) 91

Rabbi Shelomo Alkabetz (1500-1580) 95

Rabbi Moshe Alshekh (1507-1593) 99

Part 5 The New Generation of Sephardic Rabbis 103

Rabbi Shemuel De Medina (1505-1589) 105

Rabbi Moshe Almosnino (Ca. 1515-Ca. 1580) 109

Rabbi Yisrael Najara (1550-1625) 114

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto (1565-1648) 118.

ISBN:

9789652298744

9652298743

OCLC:

945586047

Publisher Number:

99970187977