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Recounts events surrounding the recovery, in 2017, of a sixteenth-century biographical manuscript by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, a crypto-Jew executed by the Inquisition in colonial Mexico.



Trade Review

“People interested in Jewish and Latin American history will most enjoy Stavans’s study, which for all its scrupulous research leaves the central mystery tantalizingly unsolved.”

—Publishers Weekly


“This book will be of interest to crypto-Jewish collections and potentially also to library science collections.”

—Shmuel Ben-Gad Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews



Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Part I: Lost

1. The Thief

2. The Prophet

Part II: Found

3. The Chronicler

4. The Collector

Notes

The Return of Carvajal

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      Publisher Pennsylvania State University Press
      Published 1 October 2019
      ISBN-13 9780271084701
      978-0271084701
      ISBN-10 0271084707
      Also in:
      Judaism Religious intoleranceand conflict

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Recounts events surrounding the recovery, in 2017, of a sixteenth-century biographical manuscript by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, a crypto-Jew executed by the Inquisition in colonial Mexico.



      Trade Review

      “People interested in Jewish and Latin American history will most enjoy Stavans’s study, which for all its scrupulous research leaves the central mystery tantalizingly unsolved.”

      —Publishers Weekly


      “This book will be of interest to crypto-Jewish collections and potentially also to library science collections.”

      —Shmuel Ben-Gad Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews



      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations

      Part I: Lost

      1. The Thief

      2. The Prophet

      Part II: Found

      3. The Chronicler

      4. The Collector

      Notes

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