ABOAB — ABOAB, Spanish family whose descendants remained prominent among the Sephardim of the Mediterranean world as well as in the ex Marrano communities of Northern Europe. The origin of the name is obscure. The family produced many outstanding Jewish… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ABOAB DA FONSECA, ISAAC — (1605–1693), Dutch Sephardi rabbi. Aboab was born in Castro Daire, Portugal, of a Marrano family, as Simao da Fonseca, son of Alvaro da Fonseca alias David Aboab. He was brought as a child to St. Jean de Luz in France and then to Amsterdam, where … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ABOAB, IMMANUEL — (c. 1555–1628), protagonist of Judaism among the Crypto Jews. The little that is known about his life is derived from his major work Nomologia, and from his letters to many Crypto Jews in Western Europe. He was born in Porto into a New Christian… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ABOAB, ISAAC I — (end of the 14th century), rabbinic author and preacher; probably lived in Spain. His father seems to have been called Abraham and may have been the Abraham Aboab to whom judah b. asher of Toledo (d. 1349) addressed responsa (Zikhron Yehudah, 53a … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ABOAB, ISAAC II — (1433–1493), rabbinical scholar. Known as the last gaon of Castile, Aboab was a disciple of isaac canpanton and head of the Toledo Yeshivah. joseph caro refers to him as one of the greatest scholars of his time. During the final years before the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ABOAB, ISAAC DE MATTATHIAS — (1631–1707), Dutch Sephardi scholar. His father Manuel Dias Henriques (1594–1667) was born in Oporto into a Marrano family, a descendant of isaac aboab II. After escaping from the Inquisition in Mexico he reverted to Judaism as Mattathias Aboab… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ABOAB, SAMUEL BEN ABRAHAM — (1610–1694), Italian rabbi. Aboab was born in Hamburg, but at the age of 13 he was sent by his father to study in Venice under David Franco, whose daughter he later married. After serving as rabbi in Verona, he was appointed in 1650 to Venice. At … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ABOAB, JACOB BEN SAMUEL — (d. c. 1725), Venetian rabbi. He was the third son of Samuel Aboab, whom he succeeded as rabbi of Venice and whose biography he wrote (introduction to Samuel Aboab s responsa Devar Shemu el (Venice, 1702). He studied mathematics and astronomy and … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Aboab, Immanuel — (1555 1628) Spanish scholar. He wrote Nomologia, o discursos legales, a defence of the divine origin of the oral law and the Jewish tradition … Dictionary of Jewish Biography
Aboab, Isaac — 1) (fl. 14th cent.) Spanish writer on ethics. He collected aggadic teaching and homiletical literature concerned with Jewish ethics in the Candlestick of Light. 2) (1433 93) Spanish rabbinic scholar. He is known as the last gaon of… … Dictionary of Jewish Biography
