March/April 2009

Recommended books about Jewish Mexico

The Martyr: Luis de Carvajal, A Secret Jew in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
By Martin A. Cohen

The Family Tree: An Illustrated Novel
By Margo Glantz

The Jews in New Spain: Faith, Flame, and the Inquisition
By Seymour B. Liebman

Enclosed Garden
By Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

Like a Bride and Like a Mother
By Rosa Nissán

The Disappearance
By Ilan Stavans

On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
By Ilan Stavans

Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers
Edited by Ilan Stavans

The Carvajal Family: The Jews and the Inquisition in New Spain in the Sixteenth Century
By Alfonso Toro