Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Quarterly Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
112,1 (2022) 31-59
Keywords:
Isaac ben Immanuel de Lattes,
;
Kimhi, Joseph Ben Saul
;
Crescas, Eliezer
;
Jews History
;
Rabbinical literature
;
Jews History 14th century
Abstract:
This article explores the works of four Jewish intellectuals who lived in or near Avignon at the end of the fourteenth century: Isaac de Lattes, Joseph Kimḥi, Eliezer Crescas, and Jacob Salomon. Each of these authors wrote a different type of rabbinic book, shedding light on shared themes and concerns that dominated their city. Their works express—sometimes explicitly, but often implicitly and through their very structure—deep-seated anxieties about the state of Jewish knowledge and communal memory in late medieval Provence. Their concerns with the construction of identity, magic, patronage, and the preservation of knowledge all set the stage for the enigmatic Moses Botarel. Shameless self-promoter and ingenious literary forger, Botarel served as a mirror of the achievements and vulnerabilities of late medieval rabbinic culture in Provence.
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