ABOAB, ISAAC DE MATTATHIAS
- ABOAB, ISAAC DE MATTATHIAS
- 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 in Amsterdam in 1626. Isaac was
a wealthy East India merchant trading with Spain and Portugal under the
assumed name of Dennis Jennis. Although not a rabbi, as generally
stated, he patronized rabbinical works and was a prolific writer and
copyist. His only published work is a brief handbook of moral conduct,
first written for his son in Hebrew but published in Portuguese under
the title of Doutrina Particular (Amsterdam, 1687, 1691,
reprinted by M.B. Amzalak, Lisbon, 1925). He advised his son to read
Spanish books from time to time for his entertainment. He also wrote
(1685) a morality play (Comedia) on the life of Joseph, and
compiled a history and genealogy of his own family.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Revah, in: Boletim internacional de bibliografia
Iusobrasileira, 2 (1961), 276–310 (full list of Aboab's writings);
Kayserling, Bibl., 3–45, 55, 81, 110; C. Roth, in: JQR,
23 (1922/33), 122 ff.; A. Rubens, Jewish Iconography (1954),
65–67; H.I. Bloom, Jews of Amsterdam (1937).
(Cecil Roth)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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