Background
Kaplan, Yosef was born on January 28, 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son of David and Sarah (Melamed) Kaplan.
(Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal, was o...)
Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal, was one of the most prominent intellectual figures of the Sephardi Diaspora in the 17th century. After studying medicine and theology in Spain and pursuing a distinguished medical career, he was arrested by the Spanish Inquisition for practicing Judaism, tortured, tried, and imprisoned. He later emigrated to France and became a professor of medicine at Toulouse before openly professing his Judaism and going to Amsterdam to join the thriving Portuguese community there. Amsterdam was then a city of great cultural creativity and religious pluralism. In this atmosphere Orobio flourished, and went on to become an outstanding spokesman and apologist for the Jewish community. This fascinating biography sheds light on the intricate life of a unique Jewish community of former Christians who had openly returned to Judaism. It focuses on the particular dilemmas of the converts, their attempts to establish boundaries between their Christian past and their new identity, their internal conflicts, and their ability to create new forms of Jewish life and expression.
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Kaplan, Yosef was born on January 28, 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son of David and Sarah (Melamed) Kaplan.
Bachelor, Hebrew University, 1967. Master of Arts summa cum laude, Hebrew University, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude, Hebrew University, 1979.
Senior lecturer, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, Israel, 1982-1986; associate professor, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, Israel, 1986-1988; Bernard Cherrick professor Jewish history, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, Israel, since 1988. Visiting professor Yale University, New Haven, Conference, 1990. Associate director research Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, 1992.
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(Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal, was o...)
(Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal, was o...)
Member The History Society of Israel (committee member 1989-1992, chairman since 1992), World Union of Jewish Studies (council member since 1993), American Association for Jewish Studies.
Married Chasia Bialy, September 5, 1965 (divorced November 1986). Children: Yehuda, Michal. Married Leontine Veerman, October 14, 1993.
1 child, Natan.