From Spanish court to Italian ghetto; Isaac Cardoso, a study in seventeenth-century marranism and Jewish apologetics / by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-2009.

Contributor:

Baron, Salo W. (Salo Wittmayer), 1895-1989.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Columbia University. Center of Israel and Jewish Studies. Columbia University studies in Jewish history, culture, and institutions ; no. 1.

Columbia University studies in Jewish history, culture, and institutions, no. 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cardoso, Isaac, 1603 or 1604-1683.

Cardoso, Isaac.

Jews--Italy--Biography.

Jews.

Italy.

Crypto-Jews--Iberian Peninsula--Biography.

Crypto-Jews.

Judaism--Apologetic works--History and criticism.

Judaism.

Judaism--Apologetic works.

Physicians--Italy--Jewish--Biography.

Physicians.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 524 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Columbia University Press, 1971.

Contents:

Marranos in the seventeenth century

Beginnings of a career

Madrid: debuts and collisions

Madrid: fame and flight

Italy: reclaiming a birthright

Philosopher in the Ghetto

Abraham, Isaac, and the Messiah

Spokesman for Judaism

Defender of Israel.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis, Columbia University, 1966.

Foreword (p. ix-xi) by Salo W. Baron.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-502) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok Jerusalem 1974".

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotation.

ISBN:

0231032862

OCLC:

162428