PROVENÇAL, ABRAHAM BEN DAVID
- PROVENÇAL, ABRAHAM BEN DAVID
- PROVENÇAL, ABRAHAM BEN DAVID (16th century),
scholar of Mantua. He was the son of David b. Abraham Provençal\>\>
. Abraham was the teacher of Azariah dei Rossi and Abraham Portaleone,
who refer to him in terms of the highest praise and make mention of his
extensive knowledge of Torah and Talmud, Latin, philosophy, and
medicine. The titles of doctor of philosophy and doctor of medicine were
conferred upon him, and from 1563 he started to become widely knownas an
outstanding physician. At the same time he served as rabbi in various
Italian towns, including Ferrara and Mantua. With his father, he
planned, in 1564, the founding of a university for the study of Judaism
and the general sciences. Both David and Abraham Provençal belonged to a
group of Italian scholars who aspired toward a beneficial merger between
the curricula of Jewish religious studies and of general knowledge in
order to strengthen religious education among Jews and to minimize the
influences of general education.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. Guedemann, in: Festschrift… A. Berliner (1903), 164–75;
J.R. Marcus, Jews in the Medieval World (1938), 381–8; H.
Friedenwald, Jews and Medicine (1944), 221f.; C. Roth,
Jews inthe Renaissance (1959), 42f., 247f., 254, 331; S.
Simonsohn, in: KS, 37 (1962), 106, 115, 118f.; M.A. Shulvass,
Ḥayyei ha-Yehudim be-Italyah bi-Tekufat ha-Renaissance
(1955), 239f.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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