Abraham Usque
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Abraham ben Salomon Usque (given the Christian name Duarte Pinhel) was a 16th century Portuguese Jew. He fled the Portuguese Inquisition for Ferrara, Italy, around 1543.
In Ferrara, Usque worked with Yom-Tob ben Levi Athias (the Marrano Jerónimo de Vargas), a Spanish typographer. Usque translated the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) into Ladino, published in folio at Ferrara in 1553 and known as the Ferrara Bible. This edition has become scarce, but a second was published in Holland in 1630. In this translation, the Hebrew text is rendered verbatim.
Other books published by Usque included the Portuguese classic Menina e Moça by Bernardim Ribeiro, and Consolação às Tribulações de Israel by his brother Samuel Usque.
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- This article incorporates content from John Aikin's General Biography, a publication in the public domain.
