TY  - GEN
T1  - The Return of Carvajal : A Mystery
A1  - Stavans, Ilan
A2  - Eko,
LA  - English
PP  - University Park, PA
PB  - Penn State University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1257325185
AB  - In 2017, the New York Times announced that the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger had been rediscovered. Considered the first autobiography by a Jew in the Americas, the book had been stolen decades earlier from Mexico's National Archives. Here, Ilan Stavans recounts the extraordinary and entertaining story of the reappearance of this precious object and how its discovery opened up new vistas onto the world of secret Jews escaping the Spanish Inquisition.Called el Mozo (the Younger) to distinguish him from an uncle of the same name who was governor of Nuevo León, Luis de Carvajal learned of his Jewishness after being raised a Catholic. He came to recognize himself as a messiah for fellow crypto-Jews, and he was burned at the stake on December 8, 1596, in the biggest auto-da-fé in all of Latin America. His memoir--a 180-page manuscript written by a crypto-Jew targeted by the Holy Office of the Inquisition for unlawful proselytizing activities--was not only distinct but of enormous value.With characters such as conniving academics embroiled in a scholarly feud, a magnanimous philanthropist, naïve booksellers, and a secondary cast that could be taken from a David Lynch film, The Return of Carvajal recounts the global intrigue that placed crypto-Jewish culture at the heart of contemporary debates on religion and identity.
OP  - 112
CN  - F1231.C32
SN  - 9780271085418
SN  - 027108541X
KW  - Carvajal, Luis de, : 1567?-1596.
KW  - Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico)
KW  - Crypto-Jews : Mexico : History : 16th century.
KW  - Inquisition : Mexico.
KW  - Book thefts : Mexico.
KW  - Cryptojuifs : Mexique : Histoire : 16e siècle.
KW  - Inquisition : Mexique.
KW  - Vol de livres : Mexique.
KW  - RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
ER  -