ABSTRACT
Among the Sephardi diaspora, major works of Hebrew literature by Spanish Jews were often republished and sometimes translated, so that Conversos in particular could get to know them after they entered into the world of Judaism. One such book was Isaac Aboab’s fourteenth-century Menorat ha- Ma’or, published in Amsterdam in 1708 under the Spanish title Almenara de la Luz (Candelabra of the Light). The book is largely about the ethics of Judaism and the Spanish edition made its content more accessible.
