NEW HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Sept. 18, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Multitudes of contemporary Hispanics from central through South America and the Caribbean are unaware of their ancestors' struggle for survival under the five hundred years of Spain's and Portugal's barbaric Inquisition. Discover the emergence and descent of the converted Jews of Spain in Conversos of the Americas, a compelling new book authored by Keith Fogel and Marian E. Fogel.
Conversos of the Americas highlights a barbaric and gruesome religious episode, namely the Spanish-Portuguese Inquisition, and explores the subtle and hidden identity of the New World Hispanics, most of whom are descendants of Jews who have merged with Native Peoples of the Americas and from Africa. There are few descendants from Mexico's converses except for crypt-Jews who could not flee North to New Mexico. It is written to teach readers about our multi-ethnic world, the horrors of religious intolerance, the newest practices of Islamic hate and murders. Interestingly, this book includes twenty pictures showing in detail the barbaric events and individuals, illustrated by master artists of Spain and beyond.
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About the Authors
Keith Fogel earned his Masters Degree in Literature from California State University and a Masters in Business Administration. He has published other prose and poetry works. He was born in Middletown, Ohio and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Los Angeles, California. He now resides in the Denver area with his family, and is the father of four sons. His aunt, Marian E. Fogel, encouraged his work on the thesis and then collaborated on the full manuscript for this book. She has worked in newspaper reporting and medical-laboratory work, which served as background for her Veterinary research, for which she has been honored with membership in the New York Academy of Sciences, under her married name of Roseig. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and has lived in the mountain region of the Catskills as well as the foothills above New York City.
Conversos of the Americas * by Keith Fogel & Marian E. Fogel
Emergence & Descent of the Converted Jews of Spain
Publication Date: April 23, 2004
Trade Paperback; $17.84; 188 pages; 978-1-4010-7129-5
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