https://hdl.handle.net/10481/60255 2026-04-11T19:08:58Z https://hdl.handle.net/10481/60333 Philoteo Elianus Montaltus Lusitanus two sides of the same coin: The man and his work Veiga Frade, Florbela Filipe Rodrigues, a.k.a. Elias Montalto, was one of several Portuguese doctors in Medicine with international recognition in the Early Modern Age that were forced to run from Inquisition. Montalto’s legacy was quite a few different works and among those was one of religious controversial about Isaiah 53 which had great diffusion in the Sephardic communities through the World – the remaining works are about medical themes, namely Archipathologia precursor in Psychiatry and cited by the leading doctors and scholars on the Medicine vanguard at that time. This paper analyses the figure of Filipe Rodrigues ant the context of his work.; Filipe Rodrigues o Elías Montalto fue uno de varios médicos portugueses de renombre internacional durante los tiempos modernos que se vieron obligados a huir de la Inquisición. Montalto dejó un legado de varias obras, entre ellas una de polémica religiosa que se centra en Isaías 53 y que se difundió principalmente en las comunidades sefardíes de todo el mundo; y el resto son obras médicas, incluyendo Archipathologia, precursora de la psiquiatría y citada por los principales médicos y estudiosos de medicina de vanguardia de la época. Este estudio se centra en quién fue Filipe Rodrigues, en qué consistió su obra y el contexto de la misma. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/60329 Emilio Castelar y los judíos: una reevaluación Shinan, Nitai El famoso orador Emilio Castelar y Ripoll es considerado hoy por el público español un filosemita exaltado y comprometido con la causa judía en Europa. En este artículo reexamino los comentarios y las afirmaciones que dedicó Castelar a los judíos y al judaísmo durante toda su trayectoria literaria, la cual muestra a un liberal español que, como cristiano, sostenía muchas ideas antijudías tomadas de la tradición, hasta que el descubrimiento, poco antes de la Revolución Gloriosa de 1868, de los sefarditas orientales que conservaban el idioma castellano removió su conciencia nacionalista española y acrecentó su determinación de simpatizar con los judíos sefardíes, vistos ahora desde el prisma del patriotismo, y de combatir por la total libertad religiosa y de cultos.; The distinguished Spanish orator Emilio Castelar y Ripoll (1832-1899) was long considered by the Spanish public and researchers as an enthusiastic philosemite and champion of the Jewish cause in Europe. The article proves that this impression is somehow inaccurate, and that Emilio Castelar’s thinking underwent a radical change from traditional Spanish Catholic anti-Semitism expressed in his early writings from the sixth and seventh decades of the nineteenth century, to pro Jewish exalted philosemitism expressed in his later writings from the last decades of the century. The article analyzes Emilio Castelars’ various writings about the Jews and offers several possible explanations to his change of mind. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/60326 Lo que nos enseña Kalá Rabati sobre la redacción del Talmud Brodsky, David Kalá Rabati es un texto rabínico amoraíta (c. 350–400 de nuestra era) poco conocido con una estrecha relación con el Talmud de Babilonia. Hay pasajes en Kalá Rabati que tienen paralelos en el Talmud con ciertas variantes que exponen el proceso editorial de ambos textos. Además, la manera en que el Talmud se redactó es un enigma para los estudios talmúdicos. Hasta ahora, este análisis ha sido tautológico: se descifra cómo se redactó el Talmud por medio de datos que provienen exclusivamente del Talmud mismo. Este estudio demuestra que Kalá Rabati nos ayuda a descubrir el proceso de edición del Talmud, señalando el importante papel que los transmisores desempeñaron en la redacción de algunos pasajes, constituyendo a veces la voz anónima del mismo.; Kallah Rabbati is a little-known late amoraic (c. 350–400 CE) rabbinic text with a close relationship to the Babylonian Talmud. Passages in Kallah Rabbati parallel passages in the Talmud with variations that expose the redactional process of both texts. How the Talmud was redacted is one of the enigmas of Talmudic studies. To date, that analysis has been tautological: deciphering how the Talmud was edited from data gathered exclusively from the Talmud itself. This study shows that Kallah Rabbati can be an invaluable aid in uncovering that process, pointing to the transmitters as having played a crucial role in the editing of some Talmudic passages and even at times comprising its anonymous voice. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/60321 Unknown Regulations in Ladino from Salonika (ca. 1740): Ethos, Ideal, Reality Ben-Naeh, Yaron In the mid-1930s, Viennese bookseller David Fränkel described a booklet containing regulations in Ladino. Its whereabouts were unknown until it recently appeared in a public auction in Jerusalem. Though Fränkel attributed it to Istanbul, his description leaves no room for doubt that this is the same text, but internal evidence points to Salonika. The four-page booklet is unsigned and undated; one can only conjecture that it was printed in the mid-1740s upon the initiative of the rabbinical and communal leadership in Salonika. It contains two groups of regulations: the first, 24 in number, is arranged according to the months, generally with some connection between the content of the regulation and the month in which it was promulgated; the second contains 18 diverse halakhic directives. In addition to its rarity, the booklet is most instructive about several matters: (a) The religious-cultural character of the community, far from the one desired by the rabbis and from the ideal image of a traditional society that punctiliously observes religious commandments - both depicted by historians as well as by those who wrote about their native community after it was exterminated by the nazis. The text relates to many transgressions of the religious law, whether intentionally or accidentally; members do not know the basics of Judaism and do not understand the prayers or passages read from the Torah. There is much information on the practices connected to the Sabbath and holidays and to lifecycle. (b) The Ladino spoken in Salonika in the mid-eighteenth century is in a transitional stage, showing traces characteristic of earlier periods as well as innovations. Many Hebrew words are interspersed in the text, a fact that raises the question about knowledge of Hebrew. (c) The use and the importance and meaning of printing as mass communication. The following is a summary of the 24 regulations. Some are previously unknown, while others are more or less familiar. Reference is made in the article to similar earlier or contemporary regulations (such as in Orḥot Yosher). The objective of most of the regulations was to prevent ostentatious consumption and waste of money, moral failings, tension with non-Jews or their complaints about indecent behavior of Jewish women, disregard of religious commandments, as well as to eliminate improper practices, particularly those related to prayers and the Sabbath. El texto completo de este trabajo, en lengua hebrea, está en las páginas h5-h41 al final del fascículo. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/60320 El humor en la prensa sefardí: chistes publicados en periódicos judeoespañoles (siglos XIX y XX) Sánchez-Pérez, María El chiste pertenece a la literatura oral y popular, está presente casi continuamente en la vida cotidiana, pero muchas veces no se repara en él. Actualmente contamos con pocas antologías y estudios académicos en torno a ellos. El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar algunos chistes publicados en diferentes periódicos sefardíes aparecidos en distintas ciudades, pero en épocas más o menos cercanas en el tiempo (1880-1910): Ilustra Guerta de Istoria (Viena), Yerushalayim (Jerusalén), El Pasa-tiempo (Plovdiv) y El Grasiozo (Constantinopla).; Jokes belong to oral and popular literature. They are constantly present in daily life, but often we do not pay attention to them. Currently there are but a few anthologies or studies focusing on jokes. The aim of this article is to present some jokes that appeared in Sephardic newspapers that were published in different cities during the same period (1880- 1910): Ilustra Guerta de Istoria (Vienna), Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), El Pasa-tiempo (Plovdiv) y El Grasiozo (Constantinople).