The Kabbalah was an important part of the Sephardi (as well as the Ashkenazi) experience both before and after the "Inquisition." What is Kabbalah? Kabbalah is Judaism's mystical tradition. The KabbalahĪnother area of Jewish life that was often overlooked until recently is "Kabbalah". Many of us do not realize the magnitude of these events which, for its time, was as devastating and earth-shattering to the Jewish world as the Holocaust would be some five hundred years later. The period is often referred to as the "Inquisition," though this name is somewhat misleading. The book is a "crash course" in the nuances and details of the persecution, forced conversion, clandestine worship, expulsion, flight and renewal that marked the Sephardi passage. These events mark an important period in Jewish history that is often overlooked. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon is a compelling murder mystery and historical novel that uses the catastrophic events that overtook Spanish and Portuguese Jewry in the fifteenth century.
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