FRANCISCO MORENO DE CARVALHO

Born in São Paulo (Brazil), in 1959.

He is a medical doctor, doing post-graduate work at the Hebraic University of Jerusalem, Israel, in the fields of Jewish Thought and the History of Medicine.

His studies are especially focused on the role played by Jewish-Portuguese doctors in Jewish, Portuguese and European intellectual life during the XVII and XVIII centuries.

Worked as a research assistant in the Sidney Adelstein Archives of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the National and University Library of Jerusalem, Israel.

Worked as a researcher at the Ben Tzvi Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.

Contributed entries to “The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion,” Oxford University Press, 1997.

Acted as a UNESCO consultant to the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Sports – MEC.

Among his published articles are:

Dov Ber Borochov: man as a synthesis of Marxism and Sionism.  Jornal Nueva Sion, Special Supplement, Buenos Aires, 1985.

Yaacov Rosales: Medicine, Astrology, and Political Thought in the Works of a Seventeenth-Century Jewish-Portuguese Physician. Revista Korot, dedicated to the History of Medicine, N. 10, 1994.

Review of Rafel Patai’s book Jewish Alchemists, published in the Near Eastern Studies Review – Judaic Studies, Cornell University, 1995.

With Dr. Shmuel Kottek, co-authored a review of the book Studies on Gersonides, A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist (Gad Freudental, ed., Leiden E. J. Brill, 1992) for the periodical  Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Sciences, vol. 45, no. 134, 1995.

Published an article in the periodical Kiriat Sefer,  on the book History of Portugal, vol. 6:  Judaism, the Inquisition and Sebastianism (in Hebrew), 1996.

Published the article  I Am a Wandering Jew: the Judaic context of the intellectual life of the physician Zacuto Lusitano, in the periodical of the World Association for Judaic Studies (in Hebrew), 1996.

Contributed the essay Zacuto Lusitano and a Treatise on Medicine for Brazil included in the book Em Nome da Fé (In the Name of Faith), Editora Perspective, São Paulo, 1999.

For Vidas Lusófonas he has written the following biographies: 

Manoel Bocarro Francês,  Garcia da Orta,  Gonçalo Anes, o Bandarra.