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Title: Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman & Philosopher by B. Netanyahu ISBN: 0-8014-3487-4 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Biography of a Jew whose Influence far exceeds his Fame
Comment: Don Isaac Abravenel lived at the juncture of the Medieval and the Renaissance, and through the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. His writings help preserve the Jews through this troubled time, but also delayed the resettlement of the Land of Israel.
Ben-Zion Netanyahu (father of the hero of Entebbe, and of the recent Israeli PM) first tells of the life of Abravenel, and then discusses his outlook and religion. This unusual treatment works very well. Netanyahu first introduces us to the attitudes and assumptions of the people who lived at the time, which are so often very different than our own, and then discusses how Abravenel fit into, or differed from, that zeitgeist. By building step by step -- World Outlook, View of History, Political Concepts, and finally Messianism, the author educates us about Abravenel's world, as well as his beliefs. I was surprised at Abravenel's prediction that the coming of the Messiah would be immediately preceded by a war between Christians and Moslems.
The endnotes, bibliography, and index are all very helpful.
[This review is based on the original 1953 edition.]
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Title: The Marranos of Spain: From the Late 14th to the Early 16th Century, According to Contemporary Hebrew Sources by B. Netanyahu ISBN: 0801485681 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain by B. Netanyahu ISBN: 0940322390 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: JEWS OF SPAIN : A HISTORY OF THE SEPHARDIC EXPERIENCE by Jane S. Gerber ISBN: 0029115744 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by Lawrence Fine ISBN: 0804748268 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz ISBN: 047146502X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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