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
Córdoba 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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