Abraham Castanho was a
Spanish Jewish poet who lived at
Amsterdam
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in the middle of the 17th century. He was the author of an elegy on the martyr Abraham Nuñez Bernal, who was burned at
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May 3, 1655. It was inserted in ''Elogios que Zelosos Dedicaron á la Felice Memoria'', etc., published probably at Amsterdam in 1656.
Bibliography
*
Wolf, Johann Christoph, ''Bibliotheca Hebræa'' iii, Nos. cxlix. et seq.
*
Kayserling, Meyer, ''Sephardim'', p. 262
*—, ''Biblioteca Española-Portugueza-Judaica'', p. 35
*
Fürst, Julius, ''Bibliotheca Judaica'' i, 148.G. I. Br.
Spanish poets
Writers from Amsterdam
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Spanish male poets
Dutch Sephardi Jews
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