Author: WIEGERS, GERARD and MERCEDES GARCIA-ARENAL
Title: A Man of three Worlds. Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe. ISBN 9780801886232
Description: Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 2003. 173 pp. Good copy. Paperback. In the late fifteenth century, many of the Jews expelled from Spain made their way to Morocco and established a dynamic community in Fez. A number of Jewish families became prominent in commerce and public life there. Among the Jews of Fez of Hispanic origin was Samuel Pallache, who served the Moroccan sultan as a commercial and diplomatic agent in Holland until Pallache's death in 1616. Before that, he had tried to return with his family to Spain, and to this end he tried to convert to Catholicism and worked as an informer, intermediary, and spy in Moroccan affairs for the Spanish court. Later he became a privateer against Spanish ships and was tried in London for that reason. His religious identity proved to be as mutable as his political allegiances: when in Amsterdam, he was devoutly Jewish; when in Spain, a loyal converso (a baptized Jew). ISBN: 9780801886232

Keywords:


See more books from our catalog: English Judaica