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Matthew D. Warshawsky

Matthew D. Warshawsky is professor of Spanish at the University of Portland, where he teaches courses on Spanish Medieval and Golden Age literature and culture and Latin American Jewish literature and culture, among other topics. He is the author of The Perils of Living the Good and True Law: Iberian Crypto-Jews in the Shadow of the Colonial Inquisition of Hispanic America (Juan de la Cuesta, 2016) and the co-editor, with James A. Parr, of Don Quixote: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Juan de la Cuesta, 2013).

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Women of the Carvajal Family

The devotion of the Carvajal women to forbidden Jewish practices helped their family become the most famous Hispano-Portuguese secret Jews of colonial Latin America. The determination of these conversas, or New Christians, to create a recognizable Jewish identity shows the importance of women to crypto-Judaism at a time when the Inquisition of Spain and its territories prosecuted this belief system as heresy.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Matthew D. Warshawsky." (Viewed on March 28, 2024) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/warshawsky-matthew>.