Aboab family

The family progenitor Abraham Aboab had one son, Isaac Aboab I, who was a Talmudic scholar in Aragon. He later moved to Toledo, Castile, where he headed his own yeshiva, teaching Jewish ethics. He is best known for his work Menorat haMaor "Lamp of Illumination",[4] which is a collection of midrashic sermons. His son, Abraham II, was a close contemporary of Judah ben Asher and Abraham II's great-grandson Isaac Aboab of Castile, was a posek and Torah commentator in Toledo. Following the Alhambra Decree of 1492, he with thirty others of the most respected Jews of the land went to Lisbon in order to negotiate with King John II of Portugal for the reception of his banished coreligionists. He and his companions were allowed to settle under favourable conditions in Porto, Portugal. However, his son Abraham Aboab IV was the victim of forced conversion in 1497 and thus he and all his descendants became Crypto-Jews. In the early 17th-century the majority of the family immigrated to Western Europe. With Elijah Aboab Cardoso, and Abraham Aboab V in Hamburg. Immanuel Aboab, Isaac ben Mattathiah Aboab, and Isaac Aboab da Fonseca in Amsterdam, and Samuel Aboab and his son Jacob Aboab in Venice.[5][3][6]