A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe

by Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801886236
• ISBN13: 9780801886232
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.7"