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

By Flora Cassen, Senior Faculty, Hartman Institute and Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Ronnie Perelis, Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies, 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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