This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Joseph Albo represented the Jewish side at the Disputation of Tortosa, a documented public debate staged by the Christian church running from 1413 to 1414, a lengthy and coercive proceeding distinct from an ordinary scholarly exchange freely entered into by both sides. That disputation is documented as putting enormous pressure on Iberian Jewish communities generally, not on Albo's own arguments alone, a wider context his own role at Tortosa sat within rather than one confined to a private theological dispute.
That Albo, a student of Hasdai Crescas, was the figure chosen to represent the Jewish side under that pressure is documented as the specific role through which he is best known, distinct from his later philosophical writing, which responded to the same conditions from within Jewish thought rather than in the disputation's own staged setting. The disputation itself is recorded as a coercive public occasion rather than a forum either side entered on equal terms, a documented asymmetry central to understanding what representing the Jewish side there actually required.
That a philosopher's best known public role was defending Judaism inside a debate the church itself staged and controlled, under conditions of sustained pressure on the wider Jewish community, marks the Disputation of Tortosa as a documented case where a scholar's most visible work took the form of argument conducted on terms his own side had not set.