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Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas

Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world.

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Flora Cassen