Don Isaac Abravanel

Don Isaac Abravanel is a Hebrew play in five acts by Yehudah Leib Landau (1866-1942)

The original text
The play is a historical work about the life of Don Isaac Abravanel after the expulsion from Spain, with his arrival in Naples. It was most probably written in Johannesburg, where Landau was the chief rabbi from 1903 to 1915 and afterwards Chief Rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues.

Published in New York in 1919.

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