The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

A marvelous story, a challenging mystery, and a telling tale of the evils of intolerance, award-winning author Richard Zimler’s The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon both compels and entertains.

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, contin...