Background
Sabán’s family is descended from Spanish Jews who sheltered in the Ottoman Empire in 1492.
Sabán’s family is descended from Spanish Jews who sheltered in the Ottoman Empire in 1492.
In 1987 he began his historical investigations about the Jewish origins of the Argentina"s traditional families. His first work, Converted Jews (1990), became a best-seller. On June 2007 he founded the organization Tarbut Sefarad, over which he presides.
In March 2008 he obtained a doctorate in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid.
In June of the same year he published his doctoral thesis entitled Rambam, the genius of Moses Maimonides, based on his deep study of the Guide for the Perplexed.