Abraham Gabbai Ysidro
Abraham Gabbay Ysidro or Isidro (died London, 1755) was a Spanish Marrano Sephardi rabbi. In Spain his first wife called Sarah was tried by the Inquisition while he escaped to London and then was hakam in Amsterdam, then Surinam, returning finally to London.[1] A sermon, Amsterdam 1724 includes details of his life, and a kabbalistic poem Yad Avraham "The hand of Abraham" on the Azharot, which was published after his death in Amsterdam in 1758 by his second wife, also called Sarah, who had settled in Bayonne.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Cecil Roth 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia. Ysidro, Abraham Gabbai or Ysidro, Abraham Gabbai Kayserling, Bibl, 48; JHSAP, 29 (1925), 13.
- ^ Yosef Kaplan The Dutch intersection: the Jews and the Netherlands in modern history - Page 156 2008 "211–13, which does not dwell on his stay in Surinam; Zvi Loker deduces a few biographical elements from the publication of Gabay Isidro's Sefer Yad Avraham, by his widow in 1763; see his Jews in the Caribbean ...
- ^ Jozeph Michman Dutch Jewish history 1991/1993 "He then married another wife, also named Sara, who outlived him and was still alive in 1758, when she published his writings under the name Yad Abraham? A third woman, named Rivka, is therefore a "newcomer" to the circle of Isidro's .."