KAPLAN, Yosef.: From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro. , Oxford: Oxford University Press(For The Littman Library), 1989.

Translated from the Hebrew by Raphael Loewe. "Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal, was one of the most prominent intellectual figures of the Sephardi Diaspora in the seventeenth century. After studying medicine and theology in Spain, and having pursued a distinguished medical career, he was arrested by the Spanish Inquisition for practicing Judaism, tortured, tried, and imprisoned. He subsequently emigrated to France and became a professor of medicine at the University of Toulouse before openly expressing his Judaism and going to Amsterdam where he joined the thriving Porutguese Jewish community." Pp.xviii/531, 8 black and white plates + 3 maps and 3 family trees, maps to endpapers. Maroon cloth, dustwrapper has removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG. (Book ref. 37508)  £40.00

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