ABRAHAM BEN SOLOMON OF TORRUTIEL
- ABRAHAM BEN SOLOMON OF TORRUTIEL
- ABRAHAM BEN SOLOMON OF TORRUTIEL (b. 1482), chronicler. Born
in Spain, after the Expulsion of 1492 he was brought to Fez by his
70-year-old father, Solomon of Torrutiel, an expert in Talmud and a
pupil of R. Isaac Canpanton . In Fez he participated actively in
the life of the Jewish community. In 1510 he wrote his Hebrew chronicle,
probably not preserved in its entirety. As he indicates in the
introduction, his plan was to continue the Sefer ha-Kabbalah
of abraham ibn daud . In the first part of his book he gives
additions to that work, including some Jewish sages not enumerated by
Ibn Daud. In the second part he continues the history of Jewish scholars
and scholarship up to 1463, in his own time. The third section is a
chronicle of Spanish kings seen from a Jewish perspective, followed by
the history of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and their
establishment first in Portugal and later on in Fez, until 1510.
In his introduction he speaks of his intention to include in his book
the prognostications of abraham zacuto . From this and other
indications it has been concluded that Abraham used for his chronicle
the works of Abraham Zacuto (Sefer Yuḥasin) and Joseph b.
Ẓaddik of Arévalo. Detailed analysis of the three works shows all
used the same Hebrew source, consisting of a chronology of Jewish
scholars and a scanty summary of a well-known Spanish world chronicle.
Abraham also mentions traditions which are not found in the works of the
other two authors. Particularly valuable are his notes on the fate of
the Spanish exiles, based on his personal eyewitness observations. The
work, first published in Neubauer's Chronicles (V. 101 ff.), has
appeared in a Spanish translation by J. Bages (Granada, 1921). He seems
to be also the author of a kabbalistic work, Avnei Zikkaron,
translated into Spanish by F. Cantera (1928).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
F. Baer, Untersuchungen ueber Quellen und Kompositionen des Schebet
Jehuda (1936), 28; Roth, in: Sefarad, 9 (1949), 450.
ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: A. David, Shetei
Khronikot Ivriyot mi-Dor Gerush Sefarad (1979), for Joseph b.
Ẓaddik of Arévalo; El libro de la cábala de Abraham ben Salomon
de Torrutiel, tr. F. Cantera (1928); Y. Moreno (tr.), Dos
crónicas hispanohebreas del siglo XV (1992).
(Encyclopaedia Hebraica /
Angel Saenz-Badillos (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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