A Man Of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, A Moroccan Jew In Catholic And Protestant Europe

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

Review"A fascinating account of the way in which a Jewish family survived and flourished while living at the heart of three warring cultures... The book illuminates a little-known side of the 17th-century world." (Church Times)"Samuel Pallache has gone down in history as an honorable figure, a slightly less successful version of Disraeli's Jewish hero Sidonia... This fascinating little book, however, based on research in the Dutch, Belgian, Spanish, and Portuguese archives, reveals a very different sort of man-a ruthless adventurer, whose duplicity was only matched by his audacity." (Times Literary Supplement)"Well referenced, with many vignettes that help to paint for the reader a vivid picture of the times." (Robert Nussenblatt Lettre Sepharade)"A coherent and revealing picture of [Samuel Pallache's] complex career... Generally judicious in its conclusions and shrewd in its utilization of detail... Along the way, it explores a hitherto unobserved pattern of ties between North African Jews and moriscos active in Christian Europe... A significant contribution to the history of the political information web of early modern Europe and the men behind it." (American Historical Review)"Fascinating... A valuable snapshot of the 'new world order' of global powers and grand alliances at the time, and the way in which the members of a relatively poor and socially marginalized family managed to play them to their advantage." (Canadian Journal of History)"A significant study which opens a window on a culture that was necessarily often submerged. " (Journal of Jewish Studies)"Garc