A marvelous story, a challenging mystery, and a telling tale of the evils of intolerance, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon both compels and entertains. Risking his life in streets seething with mayhem, Berekiah tracks down answers among Christians, New Christians, Jews, and the fellow kabbalists of his uncle, whose secret language and codes by turns light and obscure the way to the truth he seeks. Inflamed by love and revenge, he searches, in the crucible of the raging pogrom, for the killer of his beloved uncle Abraham, a renowned kabbalist and manuscript illuminator, discovered murdered in a hidden synagogue along with a young girl in dishabille. One such secret Jew was Berekiah Zarco, an intelligent young manuscript illuminator. Many of these New Christians persevered in their Jewish prayers and rituals in secret and at great risk the hidden, arcane practices of the kabbalists, a mystical sect of Jews, continued as well. Urn:oclc:859370510 Republisher_date 20130419064901 Republisher_operator Scandate 20130416052514 Scanner a few years earlier, Jews living in Portugal were dragged to the baptismal font and forced to convert to Christianity. Urn:lcp:lastkabbalistofl00rich:epub:74f6621f-b90a-4007-8f87-b4ef44ac8852 Extramarc Princeton University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lastkabbalistofl00rich Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t01z5rt9v Invoice 11 Isbn 0879518340 Lccn 97046184 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition
Urn:lcp:lastkabbalistofl00rich:lcpdf:b288b1a1-f56f-46cf-bbec-f5acd2d7b2b1 'The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon' is a novel that transports the reader into the mystical universe of kabbalah during the Lisbon massacre of April 1506. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:28:28 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA163110 Boxid_2 CH130714 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Toronto DonorĬityofsausalitolibrary Edition 1st ed.
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