Editing Uriel da Costa (section)

==Works based upon da Costa's life==
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* In 1846, in the midst of the [[liberalism|liberal]] milieu that led to the [[Revolutions of 1848]], the [[Germany|German]] writer [[Karl Gutzkow]] (1811–1878) wrote ''Uriel Acosta'', a play about da Costa's life. This would later become the first classic play to be translated into [[Yiddish]], and it was a longtime standard of [[Yiddish theater]]; Uriel Acosta is the signature role of the actor Leo Rafalesco, birth name Leib Rafalovitch, of [[Sholem Aleichem]]'s ''[[Wandering Stars (Aleichem novel)|Wandering Stars]]''. The first translation into Yiddish was by [[Osip Mikhailovich Lerner]], who staged the play at the [[Mariinski Theater]] in [[Odessa]], [[Ukraine]] (then part of [[Russian Empire|Imperial Russia]]) in 1881, shortly after the assassination of [[Tsar]] [[Alexander II of Russia|Alexander II]]. [[Abraham Goldfaden]] rapidly followed with a rival production, an [[operetta]], at Odessa's [[Remesleni Club]]. Georgian composer [[Tamara Vakhvakhishvili]] also composed music for the play.
* [[Israel Rosenberg]] promptly followed with his own translation for a production in [[Łódź]] (in modern-day [[Poland]]). Rosenberg's production starred [[Jacob Pavlovich Adler|Jacob Adler]] in the title role; the play would remain a signature piece in Adler's repertoire to the end of his stage career, the first of the several roles through which he developed the persona that he referred to as "the Grand Jew" (see also Adler's ''Memoir'' in the References below).
* [[Hermann Jellinek]] (brother of [[Adolf Jellinek]]) wrote a book entitled ''Uriel Acosta'' (1848).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8582-jellinek|title=Jellinek |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref>
* [[Israel Zangwill]] used the life of Uriel da Costa as one of several fictionalized biographies in his book ''Dreamers of the Ghetto''.
* [[Agustina Bessa-Luís]], Portuguese writer (1922–2019), published in 1984 the novel ''Um Bicho da Terra'' ("An Animal of the Earth") based on da Costa's life.
* [[Ariel Magnus]], Argentine writer, published in 2022 the novel (written in Spanish) ''Uriel y Baruch: El alma de la inmortalidad'' (''Uriel and Baruch: The soul of immortality'' in English), where he recreates Uriel da Costa's final moments adding the young Spinoza in the scene.