Profiat Duran (Efodi)

יצחק בן משה הלוי (אפודי)

Grammarian, philosopher and physician · c. 1350–c. 1415

Converso descent · EstablishedChristian Iberia

Forcibly baptized in 1391, he wrote some of the sharpest Jewish answers to Christian polemic, including a satirical letter to a friend who had converted willingly. His Ma'aseh Efod is a landmark of Hebrew grammar.

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