Abraham Castanho

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Abraham Castanho was a Spanish poet who lived at Amsterdam in the middle of the seventeenth 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.

[edit] 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.

This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article "Castanho, Abraham" by Richard Gottheil and Isaac Broydé, a publication now in the public domain.