Tag: Mexican Jews

  • A Secret Jew, the New World, a Lost Book: Mystery Solved

    A Secret Jew, the New World, a Lost Book: Mystery Solved

    Originally published in the New York Times, Jan. 1, 2017 It is perhaps the most significant artifact documenting the arrival of Jews in the New World: a small, tattered 16th-century manuscript written in an almost microscopic hand by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, the man whose life and pain it…