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Abraham Farissol

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403: 246: 31: 829: 528: 492:, emphasizing their sexual practices, social organization, lack of property, health, the richness of their wildlife, and their wealth in gems and metals. Farissol also used a combination of textual evidence with geographic and climatic evidence to determine the location of the 444:, 'Epistle of the Paths of the World') (Ferrara, 1524; Venice, 1587), a cosmographic and geographic work based upon original research as well as the works of Christian and Arab geographers, especially Bergomas' 270:
recited by women, "Blessed are You, Lord our God, Master of Universe for creating me according to Your Will," with "Blessed are You Lord our God, Master of the Universe, for You made me a woman and not a man"
472:. Each of the treatise's thirty chapters deals with a certain geographical area or subject, and many cosmological and historical matters are also treated. The book contains accounts of the 402: 349: 176: 477: 384:. By order of the duke he also made a résumé in Italian of the Hebrew text, so that his antagonists might understand his position. The work was largely based on 1047: 372:), in three parts, the second against Christianity, the third against Islam. He was induced to write this work by the fact that he was chosen to represent 1032: 652: 569: 1077: 985: 870: 636: 609: 1067: 338:. Some sermons of Farissol's, and a number of letters which he wrote in 1468 and 1474 to several of his contemporaries, are also extant. 948: 730: 221: 1052: 1042: 1087: 1082: 1072: 1037: 1027: 900: 795: 768: 814:
History of the Jews: From the Rise of the Kabbala (1270 C. E.) to the Permanent Settlement of the Marranos in Holland (1618 C. E.)
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In 1471 and 1480 Farrisol published two women's prayer books, notable for replacing the traditional prayer in the
245: 199:, where his family had lived for at least a century. Soon after 1468 Farissol went to Mantua, where he worked for 916: 844: 547: 921: 385: 335: 229: 1022: 1017: 1012: 30: 735: 488:, and the condition of the Jews in various parts of the world. It includes descriptions of the 991: 981: 973: 959: 896: 886: 866: 791: 785: 764: 758: 632: 626: 605: 200: 91: 71: 890: 860: 505: 453: 266: 250: 87: 381: 225: 180: 138: 129: 101: 839: 542: 501: 493: 146: 817:. Vol. IV. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America. pp. 412–413. 657:, in Hebrew [Letter on the Ways of the World]. Venice: Giovanni di Gara, 1586" 1006: 978:
The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol
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Paesi novamente retrovati e nova mundo da Alberico Vesputio riorentino intitulato
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in the synagogue, and occupied himself besides in the copying of manuscripts.
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Hebrew Scholasticism in the Fifteenth Century: A History and Source Book
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Igeret orḥot ʿolam, id est, Itinera mundi sic dicta nempe Cosmographia
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Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy
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The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800
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Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press. 836:"Farissol (Perizol), Abraham ben Mordecai" 539:"Farissol (Perizol), Abraham ben Mordecai" 434:The most important of his writings is the 195:Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol was born in 18: 16:Hebrew scholar and geographer (1451-1525) 917:"In the New World: Jews Come to America" 760:The Jews in the World of the Renaissance 228:. He was also attendant at the court of 556: 320:In 1525 Farissol wrote a commentary to 305:), and later published a commentary to 964:(in Latin and Hebrew). Translated by 865:. Library of Alexandria. p. 91. 729:Borschel-Dan, Amanda (8 March 2019). 653:"Farissol, Abraham (1452 – c. 1528). 7: 564: 562: 560: 283:Biblical commentary and translations 474:newly discovered parts of the world 440: 426: 421: 416: 368: 358: 301: 134:אַבְרָהָם בֵּן מֹרְדְּכַי פָרִיצוֹל 133: 1048:15th-century Italian cartographers 464:, and Fracanzano da Montalboddo's 14: 410:'s 1691 Latin translation of the 324:. He also translated into Hebrew 848:. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 827: 757:Shulvass, Moses Avigdor (1973). 570:"Farissol, Abraham ben Mordecai" 551:. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 526: 29: 1033:15th-century Italian scientists 682:Amiga, Aimee (7 January 2012). 287:Abraham Farissol wrote a short 763:. Brill Archive. p. 208. 143:Avraham ben Mordekhai Faritzol 1: 862:Chapters on Jewish Literature 478:Portuguese sea route to India 216:Farissol immersed himself in 154: 126:Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol 60: 36: 23:Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol 376:at the court of d'Este in a 240: 201:Judah ben Yehiel Messer Leon 1068:Italian Renaissance writers 889:; Veltri, Giuseppe (2004). 1119: 958:Farissol, Abraham (1691). 947:Farissol, Abraham (1471). 708:National Library of Israel 277:National Library of Israel 1053:16th-century Italian Jews 1043:15th-century Italian Jews 968:. Oxford: Jonath Edwards. 859:Abrahams, Israel (2004). 811:Graetz, Heinrich (1894). 272: 81:1525 or 1526 (aged 73-75) 28: 1088:Medieval Jewish scholars 1083:15th-century French Jews 1078:Latin–Hebrew translators 1073:Jewish scribes (soferim) 1038:16th-century geographers 1028:15th-century geographers 515:Tractatus Itinerum Mundi 50: 1098:Scientists from Ferrara 845:The Jewish Encyclopedia 784:Patai, Raphael (1996). 548:The Jewish Encyclopedia 922:Jewish Virtual Library 842:; et al. (eds.). 545:; et al. (eds.). 514: 467: 459: 447: 431: 386:Simeon ben Zemah Duran 334:and the compendium of 261: 160:– 1525 or 1526) was a 150: 625:Zonta, Mauro (2006). 405: 248: 51:אברהם בן מרדכי פריצול 1093:Writers from Avignon 950:Siddur, Italian rite 574:Encyclopædia Judaica 512:under the title of " 500:was translated into 241:Women's prayer books 1063:Italian geographers 953:(in Hebrew). 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Farissol c. 1525
Avignon
Holy Roman Empire
Ferrara
Duchy of Ferrara
Holy Roman Empire
Hebrew
Hebrew
translit.
Latin
Jewish-Italian
geographer
cosmographer
scribe
polemicist
Hebrew
Americas
Avignon
Judah ben Yehiel Messer Leon
scribe
hazzan
Renaissance
Ercole d'Este I
Duke of Ferrara
Lorenzo de' Medici

Birkot hashachar
machzor
Birkot hashachar
National Library of Israel

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