The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

Richard Zimler

Arcadia

1988

318 páginas

10h 36m

ISBN-10: 1900850036

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, an international bestseller, is an extraordinary novel that transports readers into the universe of Jewish Kabbalah during the Lisbon massacre of April 1506. Just a few years earlier, Jews living in Portugal were dragged to the baptismal font and forced to convert to Christianity. 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.