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Profiat Duran was a fourteenth-/fifteenth-century Jewish polymath who was born in Aragon/Catalunya and was forcibly converted to Christianity during the 1391 Iberian anti-Jewish riots but continued writing in Hebrew, including anti-Christian polemics.
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Kozodoy, M. (2019). Duran, Profiat. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_787-1
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