Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Abraham Gross -- Preface / Abraham Gross -- Introduction / Abraham Gross -- Chapitre One Biography; Expulsion, Wandering, and Literary Activity / Abraham Gross -- Chapitre Two The Exegesis of a Qabbalistic Preacher / Abraham Gross -- Chapitre Three Qabbalah / Abraham Gross -- Chapitre Four Social and Religious Critisicm / Abraham Gross -- Chapitre Five The Meaning and Course of History / Abraham Gross -- Chapitre Six Despair and Consolation / Abraham Gross -- Epilogue / Abraham Gross -- Appendix A Extant Manuscripts of Saba’s Works / Abraham Gross -- Appendix B Two Excerpts from Saba’s Commentary on Tractate Avot / Abraham Gross -- Appendix C An Outline of a Sermon on the Redemption / Abraham Gross -- Appendix D A Visionary Jailed in Lisbon / Abraham Gross -- Bibliography / Abraham Gross -- Index / Abraham Gross -- Brill’S Series in Jewish Studies / Abraham Gross.

The Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492. Those surviving the ordeals they encountered tried to rebuild their personal lives and to reconstruct Sefardic religious and cultural traditions in North Africa and in the East. This volume tries to depict the world of one of the refugees who formed part of the cultural bridge between Spain and the new havens of the Sefardim. Rabbi Abraham Saba of Zamora was a preacher, cabbalist, and biblical exegete. He attempted to settle in Portugal, suffered the persecutions instigated by the Crown with his coreligionists and was finally expelled to North Africa. His literary works and thought are put in the proper cultural context and are analyzed against the background of historical reality.

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