Isaac Abravanel: Letters Edition, Translation and Introduction by Cedric Cohen Skalli Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history and, above all, a legendary figure of the Expulsion of 1492 […]. The four letters of Abravanel presented here for the first time in critical and scholarly edition […] They form a remarkable - although limited - collection of Jewish epistolary writings […]. The present edition is an attempt to correct a lacuna in Abravanel studies. Moreover, it intends to reveal that the Portuguese and Hebrew private correspondence of Don Isaac is not divided into two hermetic discourses: the humanistic one for court correspondence and the medieval Jewish one for letter exchange between Jews. The Hebrew letters share, indeed, much of the rhetoric and ideological background of the Portuguese humanistic epistle. The comparative study of the Hebrew letters reveals that Don Isaac's Hebrew correspondence was an early attempt to renew the Hebrew medieval epistolary genre and to produce a Jewish equivalent to the humanistic epistle. […] Don Isaac inserted in his Hebrew epistles, as well as in his Hebrew commentaries, clear elements of fifteenth century Iberian humanism (stoicism, a new conception of nobility, and rhetorical consolation). In this way, Abravanel hoped to make his letters a combination of Judaism and new cultural trends, which was meant to express a new model of Jewish leadership or nobility.[…] Abravanel's Hebrew letters are a remarkable example of cultural adaptation, which means also of limitation, occultation, and rejection. […]