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An auto-da-fé − a public punishment for heretics − in San Bartolome Otzolotepec, in present-day Mexico. Museo Nacional de Arte via Wikimedia Commons

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

Flora Cassen, Washington University in St. Louis and Ronnie Perelis, Yeshiva University

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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