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- Breuer, Mordecai. “Modernism and Traditionalism in 16th Century Jewish Historiography- A Study of David Gans’ Tzemah David.” In Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century, edited by Bernard Cooperman. Cambridge- Harvard University Press, 1983.
- Melamed, Abraham. “The Perception of Jewish History in Italian Jewish Thought of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries- A Re-Examination.” Italia Judaica 2 (1986)- 139-170.
- David, Abraham. “The Spanish Expulsion and the Portuguese Persecution through the Eyes of the Historian R. Gedalya Ibn Yahya.” Sefarad 56, no. 1 (1996)- 45-59. Abstract- About Italian rabbi Gedalia Ibn Yahia (1526-87), the son of Portuguese Jews who fled to Italy in the late 15th century to escape persecution, copyist and author. Examples from his Shalshelet Ha-Kabbalah [Chain of tradition] concerning the persecution of Iberian Jews show that Gedalia attempted to supplement and enrich the bare facts with new information based on additional Jewish and non-Jewish sources. Gedalia’s aim was to provide information based on his understanding of the situation and personal observation. These aspects determine his place in 16th-century Jewish historiography.
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