Isaac Campantón, el maestro de maestros

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Centro Campantón invites proposals for our 14th International Conference, this year with the theme: Transmission, Recuperation and Conservation of the Jewish Legacy in Spain, Portugal and Ibero America in the 21^st Century.

This year conference will take place from July 1 to 3 at the Colegio Universitario of Zamora, Spain, from 10 to 14hrs.

Suggested subjects, but not limited to:

Emerging Jewish Communities in the 21^st century

Associations/Institutes/Academic Programs/Museums/ Cultural Centers/Hebrew Language

Publications/Press/Media/Social Networks/Influencers

Genealogy and Jewish ancestry

Memory of the Holocaust and fight against antisemitism

Jewish Archeology (Puente Castro, Lorca, Girona, Juliantla, and others)

Tourism (Festivals/Concerts/Routes and others)

Submissions to centrocampanton@gmail.com until June 1^st, and they should include: 250 words summary, name(s) and last names, institutions/association/independent researcher, email and phone number.

Like every year, we will have pre and post conference activities. Please, visit this page to keep updated.

Registration is Free, but Required (click HERE)        

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On Isaac Campanton (1360 - 1463)

 

"Against the backdrop of the decline of Torah in the last century of Jewish existence in Spain, a figure of great brilliance stood out--Rabbi Yitzhak Canpanton (1360-1463). Canpanton's hermeneutic was based on the insight that a close inner affinity existed between medieval semantics and Talmudic reasoning and argumentation. Thus, it was possible to achieve a synthesis of the two and formulate a rigorous methodology of Talmudic study both 'fit' with the Talmudic suggiyot themselves--and completely justifiable on the basis of general semantic theory. His revolutionary approach restored to the study of Talmud a sense of intellectual novelty, profoundness, and challenge, unmatched perhaps since the heyday of Tosafist innovation in twelfth-century France. His four major disciples formed a vanguard that 'conquered' the world of Sephardic Talmudic study [the MahaRITaTS, the Maharashdam, Moses Almosnino, the Beth Yoseph]; their own disciples were the great scholars of the sixteenth-century Sephardic dispersion."

Zvi Zohar, Sephardic & Mizrahi Jewry, New York University Press, NY, 2005, Chapter 9, 167