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The Last Jew
Noah Gordon
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In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip.After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews are expelled from the country by royal edict.Many who wish to remain are intimidated by Church and Crown and become Catholics, but several hundred thousand choose to honor their religion and depart; given little time to flee, some perish even before they can escape from Spain.Yonah Toledano, the 15-year-old son of a celebrated Spanish silversmith, has seen his father and brother die during these terrible days.Trapped in Spain by circumstances, he is determined to revere the memory of his family by remaining a Jew.Yonah begins a meandering journey, a young fugitive zigzagging across the vastness of Spain.Toiling at manual labor, he desperately tries to cling to his memories of a vanished culture.As a lonely shepherd he hurls snatches of almost forgotten Hebrew at the stars; as an apprentice armorer he learns to fight like a Christian knight.Finally, in a time and land where danger from the Inquisition is everywhere, he deals with the questions that mark his past.How he discovers the answers, how he finds his way to a singular and strong Marrano woman, how he achieves a life with the outer persona of a respected Old Christian physician and the inner life of a secret Jew, is the fabric of this novel. The Last Jew is a glimpse of the past, an authentic tale of high adventure, and a tender and unforgettable love story.In it, Noah Gordon utilizes his greatest strengths, and the result is remarkable and moving.AUTHORBIO: NOAH GORDON has had outstanding international success, selling in Germany alone more than eight million copies of his recent trilogy (The Physician, Shaman, and Matters of Choice).The Society of American Historians awarded him the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Shaman as the best historical novel of 1991/1992.He was also voted "Novelist of the Year" by the readers of the Bertelsmann Book Club, and twice, in 1992 and 1995, he won the Silver Basque Prize for Spain's bestselling book.An earlier book, The Rabbi, was on the New York Times Bestseller list for 26 weeks.Noah Gordon lives with his wife in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Another masterpiece by Gordon.......2007-08-20
I love most of Gordon's books. I say most because I really enjoy historical fiction more than contemporary fiction which can become very quickly dated. I wanted to give this a five star rating but there was such a glaring factual error with regard to Jewish worship that it made me question some of the other information in the book. A sad and beautiful lesson about survival and courage.
Great Historical Fiction.......2007-05-07
This is another great book from the author who gave us The Physician and The Rabbi. I have enjoyed every book he has written.
Great novel.......2007-05-04
It is one of the best books I've read. I actually stayed up all night cuz I couldn't stop. And I cried at the end. Gordon is a marvelous writer and did amazing historic research for this book. He exposes the horrors and cruelty of the christian church of those days, and tells a unique story that helps understand how Jews have overcome similar situations all over the world in the last 3 thousand years.
A terrific story.......2007-02-22
I loved this book and read it really quickly. I couldn't stand to put it down. This is one that I may well read again someday.
Solid Historical Fiction.......2006-04-17
Noah Gordon has here produced a solid novel about the fictional Yonah Toledano, surviving son of a Jewish silversmith slain in the furor of the Spanish Inquisition because of his involvement with churchly politics and relics. Yonah must fend for himself in the aftermath of his family's destruction and flees his native Toledo to travel across the Spanish countryside, becoming peon, shepherd, sailor and armorer by turns. Fleeing his enemies who are constantly behind him in the form of the dreaded Inquisition, Toledano takes a number of aliases and eventually settles first in the area of Gibraltar in southern Iberia and then in the north in Saragossa where he at last finds his calling as a physician. The story's well crafted, the characters richly drawn, and the details of the various cultures (from the Spanish towns and countryside to the flight of the Jews and the lurking of the gypsies) even more so. But the story is marred by a series of coincidences that impel the plot forward and are sometimes a stretch. Yonah becomes a man in the process, learning to work and fight, and to love women, though he finds these last hard to come by in his habitually straightened circumstances. Still, he grows with each experience and eventually finds a rough form of reconciliation and solace with the heritage he has lost. The best part of the tale is the well detailed and convincing background Gordon has managed to develop for his story. Nor is the story farfetched for Yonah remains very much a realistic person and does not miraculously metamorphose into a heroic gladiator type despite the trappings of sword, armor and knighthood he eventually acquires in his travels. Though he ultimately rises to the occasion to kill one man who clearly deserves it and arranges for the deaths of two others who had aimed to bring about his own, Yonah remains very much an everyman as he struggles to find his vocation and destiny. The female characters were a might weak and overly confined to the background of the tale but this didn't detract from the book's effectiveness. In the end it was quite compelling (after a somewhat sluggish start) and the ending suitably uplifting. -- SWM
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Excellent Book.......2001-03-23
It is a superb historic novel full with suspense, passion and drama. It is a real pity that is out of print.
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Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada by narrating a family sage of those who tried to survive after the collapse of their world. Particularly deft at evoking what life must have been like for those doomed inhabitants, besieged on all sides by intolerant Christendom. "This is a novel that have something to say, and says it well."—Guardian
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An Islamic family must make tough choices in 15th century Spain.......2007-10-08
This novel is the tale of a Muslim family living in Spain at the end of the 15th century. The military victory of the Catholic kings over Islam was confirmed centuries ago, now the Church hierarchy wants to eliminate the last vestiges of Islam on the Iberian peninsula. As a tale of a family living in turbulent times, this novel is outstanding. The characters are well developed and their interactions complex and believable. The story revolves around a well-to-do family living in SE Spain in the midst of growing pressure of the Catholic church. There are several threads to the story which are well woven together. We learn a great deal about the history of the family, the hopes and dreams of the youth, the mistakes and regrets of the older members. Hanging over everything is the threat of the Catholic Church. The head of the family, Umar, weighs the best course of action for him and his family. Should they convert to Catholicism, should they leave Spain and everything they've known and built, or should they fight a battle which they have no hope of winning?
There are several strengths to this book. First, I thought that an English language story in which Muslims are portrayed in a favorable light was a great idea. This book was published well before 9/11 and the GWOT, but it is even more relevant today as we are constantly bombarded by images of Muslims as fanatic terrorists in the US media. The impact of this tale would have been much higher, however, had Ali not used this story as a vehicle to make an anti-Catholic, anti-West rant. Had Ali been able to get past his own narrowminded prejudices, this could have been an alltime great novel. The Muslim-Catholic tension in the story is simply black and white - Muslims are proud, peaceloving, thoughtful heros, the Christians are all racist, murderous, religious bigots (sort of the inverse of Fox News). A more nuanced, morally balanced plot line would have, in my opinion, served much better. Second, the real strength of this story is in the character development. All of the characters were complex and realistically portrayed. The interplay between the characters was well done. The pacing of the story itself is a bit slow and the first half of the book is more about character development than plot. One serious weakness of this novel is that it is not historical fiction in the best sense of the term. That is, it really isn't much of a history lesson about the era or the people. You really aren't going to learn much about the era (although that was not, in my view, Ali's goal in any case).
The bottom line is that this is a good, if imperfect, historical novel about life in 15th century Spain from an Islamic perspective. Ali is clearly writing about the 20th-21st century in this book through the lens of the turbulent 15th century and trying to put a favorable image onto the Islamic culture for Western readers. Definitely worth a look if not uniquely outstanding.
Key word here being "fiction".......2007-05-09
I have to say that I admire Ali's intellectual vigor and his propensity to instictively take the weaker position on any issue , which makes him a formidable debater and iconiclastic speaker. And in that light, "Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (Islam Quartet 1)", is an interesting exercise in championing history's perrenial under-dog, Islamic culture. No doubt also that Ali's strong anti-Western bias plays a rather strong, albeit silent role in this work.
A rather more interesting book might cover the rapid Muslim conquest in the 8th century of Syria, Palestine, and the North African coast from Egypt to Morocco, followed by a permenant imposition by force of Islamic culture on what had previously been a largely non-Arab, Christian base. From this staging area, Iberia fell quickly and the subsequent Umayyad invasion into Gaul (France) was halted by the Frankish army under the military commander, Charles Martel in Tours (NW France) in 732 a.d.
Had this invasion suceeded and conquered the Frankish army, Europe would have had very little defense against the invaders and Western history would have been quite different indeed.
From my vantage point, the great debater and rationalist Tariq Ali comes off as intellectually disingenuous at the very least in this work, for forcing such a hamfisted position. He exploits the West's ability to only half-remember it's own history. And he typifies the Islamic position of only remembering the glories of it's own history.
So let's recap:
West = Crusades = Inquisition = Bad.
Muslim Culture = Peaceful = Enlightened = Good.
Shame on the West. Shame on the bloodthirsty, barbarian Christians for treating the peaceful, culturally superior Muslims so badly.
A must-read for all Muslim apologist/revisionists and all self-flagellating Westerners.
Those poor innocent little muslims, Oh the inhumanity!.......2007-05-06
If this is a novel, then how come all those Koolade-drinking reviewers are treating it as factual history?
We are expexted to actually believe that those poor little muslims were so innocent, while the bad, bad Christians tried to stop them from instituting their great sharia law, as they are trying ever so slowly now in Europe and here in the US of A?
If you love islam so much, try to live in saudi arabia for six months! Really live there, not just as a tourist in a hotel!! Then come back and review a book like this!!
A pleasure.......2007-01-27
Not historical fiction with a message but a story of the times with the truth: Moorish Spain at one point was the height of knowledge, culture, art, architecture and most important of all, religious tolerance and understanding. The Muslims ruled fairly in contrast to Isabel and Ferdinand, so loved for their gift of ships to Columbus, who when they finally defeated the Moors at Granada promised the Moorish people that they could retain their religion and lifestyle and culture. But the greedy and dark forces of the (at that time) troubled Catholic Church convinced the royalty to go back on their promises. The twisted and sadistic bishops started to destroy the culture of the Moors by burning their books (the same approach used with the Mayans in the New World) and reducing their promised freedoms. And so the story begins.
The members of a Moorish family who has lived outside Granada for many generations faces the new day with all the possible options; fight, flight, death, assimilation. The story is very well written, the characters real, the sense of time and place well set. The story is not slanted towards Moors=good, Christians=bad, although a quick look at those times in Spain one could easily make that argument. Instead the author pursues not religious credos but the challenges of individuals balancing the conflicts between their beliefs, their hearts, their ethics, orders from their superiors; the easy, the hard and the difference between right and wrong and the void between.
It is a great book, I liked it on several levels, it was the first Tariq Ali I read; I went right and got another.
Beautiful trip through history.......2006-08-18
I thought this book was a beautiful trip through history. It is well written and takes you on a journey through a man's life and gives you a great picture of what his life was like under the pomegranate tree...
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The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic (Notable American Authors)
William H. Prescott
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One of the most powerful and compelling figures of all history, Isabel of Spain was a force with which to be reckoned, and should rightfully eclipse the better-known Elizabeth of England, both as a woman and a national leader. The first full scholarly biography of Queen Isabel in English for nearly seventy-five years, Isabel is extensively annotated and eminently readable.
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Isabel of Spain.......2005-08-18
I want to counter the reviewer of this book who was so angered by it. I found this book to be in agreement with other historians who look at Isabel in the light of her times without modern prejudices and preconceptions. She was an exceptionally great historical figure; this book tells you why. It will help you to understand Isabel's world and how she took a corrupt and chaotic state and ushered it into a golden age.
Another great biography of Isabel is William Thomas Walsh's "The Last Crusader, Isabella of Spain" published in 1930. I recommend reading both biographies.
An apologia for Xenophobia.......2003-03-24
In the most glowing terms, the author enamored of this Queen, makes excuses for her bad behavior. Using the "times" as a rationale, he mentions that she expelled the Jews, pursued the Moors, executed people who said they had converted to the Catholic religion. The inquisitions began under her reign. What, for heaven's sake is there to be proud of? However, this slavish tome does just that. She did have to fight for her rights as a monarch in a time when women were relegated to royal cows. That much I'll say, but this book mostly angered me. Now, if she had been forward thinking, I'd say that was something to read about.
Fascinating story of a remarkable woman.......2000-06-06
Dr. Carroll has again done a magnificent job of making history interesting. His portrayal of Isabel is gripping, his scholarly foundation is excellent, and his style is highly readable. I especially appreciated his comments on the Spanish Inqisition - a viewpoint you won't hear from most historians! Isabel is one of the most admirable women figures in the history of the world, and an excellent model for all women concerned with true feminism. Her humanity, intelligence, compassion, wisdom and courage are inspiring. Thank you, Dr. Carroll, for your service to the truth in bringing her so vividly to life.
The authoritative biography........1999-04-02
This is the most thoroughly researched biography of Queen Isabel found in English. Written by an American historian, it's surprisingly readable.
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From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind.
Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailor’s plan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold and spices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world, this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—the dividing line between the medieval and the modern.
Spain’s colonial adventures began inauspiciously: Columbus’s meagerly funded expedition cost less than a Spanish princess’s recent wedding. In spite of its small scale, it was a mission of astounding scope: to claim for Spain all the wealth of the Indies. The gold alone, thought Columbus, would fund a grand Crusade to reunite Christendom with its holy city, Jerusalem.
The lofty aspirations of the first explorers died hard, as the pursuit of wealth and glory competed with the pursuit of pious impulses. The adventurers from Spain were also, of course, curious about geographical mysteries, and they had a remarkable loyalty to their country. But rather than bridging earth and heaven, Spain’s many conquests bore a bitter fruit. In their search for gold, Spaniards enslaved “Indians” from the Bahamas and the South American mainland. The eloquent protests of Bartolomé de las Casas, here much discussed, began almost immediately. Columbus and other Spanish explorers—Cortés, Ponce de León, and Magellan among them—created an empire for Spain of unsurpassed size and scope. But the door was soon open for other powers, enemies of Spain, to stake their claims.
Great men and women dominate these pages: cardinals and bishops, priors and sailors, landowners and warriors, princes and priests, noblemen and their determined wives.
Rivers of Gold is a great story brilliantly told. More significant, it is an engrossing history with many profound—often disturbing—echoes in the present.
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The Spanish Empire: Glorious and Devastating.......2007-05-24
Rivers of Gold is an extraordinary book on the rise of the Spanish Empire from 1492 to 1522, which deals particularly with Spain's discovery and conquest of the Americas. Written by one of the most formidable and respected historians on the subject, Hugh Thomas, this book covers it all: the whos, the whats, the whens, the wheres, the whys and the hows are all answered for in great detail. Here you will be introduced to some of history's most influential figures, like; Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Queen Isabella, King Fernando, King/Emperor Charles, Bobadilla, Ovando, Cisneros, Magellan, and many, many others.
Spain's discovery and conquest of the Americas, as Thomas recounts, brought a certain excitement, pride and triumph to Europeans. Even today in the Western World, it is viewed as something rather glorious. And indeed, Columbus's voyage was with all respect quite the astonishing feat. But to the Indians who inhabited this "New World" for thousands of years, we see a much different picture; one of great devastation. As soon as the Spaniards discovered the Americas, they claimed it for Spain. They settled there, opened a brutal slave trade, ruthlessly explored for gold, and feverishly forced the Indians to adopt their culture and convert to their religion. The Indians, perceived by the Spaniards as uncivilized and therefore unworthy of freedom, became subject to cruel oppression. Other factors, like war, famine, and disease contributed to a rapid decline in Indian population. In some places, like, Jamaica, the Indians (in this case, the Tainos) were gradually exterminated. In Cuba, within a few decades, the Spaniards came to realize that they were running out of Indian slaves. The solution? Bring more slaves from Africa! This explains why Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil (colonized by Portugal), and other countries have such a large black and white population, including mixed, whereas the Indians - along with their ancient pagan religion - are either almost or entirely extinct.
But as Thomas tells us, not all Spaniards were inhumane in their treatment of the Indians. A very few, like the Dominican priest Bartolomé de Las Casas and preacher Fray Antonio Montesinos vigorously preached against their mistreatment. But unfortunately, to most Spaniards, that is; conquerors, explorers, settlers, and religious authorities such as Cardinal Cisneros and Bishop Fonseca, the Indians were regarded as mere savages, and by their treatment of them, equivalent to cattle. (Many Spaniards owned dozens and even hundreds of Slaves). Even the heroic Columbus himself was not exactly a nice guy either, since he was the owner of several slaves and was quite the greedy and sometimes deceiving type. But at the other extreme, I also found it disturbing that some of the Indians practiced cannibalism (although greatly exaggerated by the Spaniards to justify forced conversions and slavery) and human sacrifices, hence explaining why Indians were perceived uncivilized. But were the Spaniards not as barbaric? Did they not administer the Inquisitions where they tortured and burned thousands of people alive? Where public executions not as barbaric as human sacrifices? Although different by race and religion, their practices had some visible parallels, yet very different perspectives.
But the slave trade and mistreatment of the Indians are not the central focus of this book. Thomas writes about everything else of equal importance. However, I would suspect that some readers may not appreciate all the names and places that Thomas mentions throughout this book, which admittedly, can be overwhelming at times. Also, I found quite a few instances in which Thomas gives us too much detail about little things that the common reader may not really care for, like who's related to who and married to this person's cousin of that family... But besides the few dry moments in the book, I can't say anything too negative about Thomas's work. This book is too impressive to dismiss. I highly recommend it.
Stick with Morison--The Master on This Subject.......2007-03-07
I was not thrilled with this book at all. I enjoy reading books about early explorers, and I guess I expect others to live up to the standards of my favorite author on this subject, Samuel Eliot Morison, the late historian from Harvard University. As others have stated, minor figures are given too much coverage causing me to lose interest. Ferdinand Magellan was given too little coverage for his achievements. If you want to read about Columbus and others from this time period stick with "The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages" and "The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages" by Morison. They are riveting reading at their best.
A fascinating story, a flawed telling.......2006-12-26
Thomas subject is a fascinating one of discovery, royalty, conquest, cultures and their subsequent clashes and wars, but as others have noted, there is way too much petty detail that hampers the narrative flow. Mr. Thomas' Christian-European prejudices are indeed blatant but the importance of the history of the New World is undisputed and the writer provides an interesting persepective. Editors please!
Fascinating.......2006-10-05
It takes you back in time and you feel you are transfixed and spellbound by irresistible well-described and documented events.
You will discover that the people who immigrated to what is now USA and Canada, have decided to stay for good, whereas those who went to South America only sought Gold which they brought back home (to Spain and Portugal), when in power.
You will also discover that those who decided to 'stay for good', although ruled by politicians of indifferent and competitive stature, were not lacking the supreme quality needed at the time - the courage and the quest for adventure.
Despite myriads of challenges, they preferred to hold fast to their adopted new 'Home Countries' by encouraging their people to follow their steps and migrate.
North America was different.
It was approached in an illusion. The morality of the occupants declined that no obstacle was interposed to personal hatred and the bulk was oblivious to the gravity of cannibals of 'Cariban' origin.
Perhaps one drawback is this: The book gives us the impression that the ethnic population was virtually 'robbed'.
A pity, really.......2006-03-10
As others have noted, there are striking errors of detail. The botching of the account of Ponce de Leon's trajectory along the east coast of Florida struck me as minor but annoying. Getting the story of the day lost crossing the international date line going west exactly wrong (p. 509), exactly reversing Pigafetta's narrative, is simply unforgivable. It's a pity the book lacked, it would seem, a proper editor.
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The Comuneros of Castile: The Forging of a Revolution, 1475-1521
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The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs is a comprehensive history of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the first to be published in English since that of William Prescott in 1837. It provides full coverage of political, military, economic, social, cultural and religious life in Spain during this period. The book opens with an examination of the origins and upbringing of the two rulers before moving on to look at the difficulties surrounding Isabella's accession in Castile, and the consolidation of the new regime. The origins and work of the new Spanish Inquisition are analyzed, as is the war against the Muslim kingdom of Granada. The author looks in detail at economic life, including overseas trade and maritime discovery, foreign policy, including the Italian wars, and religion in Spain, including the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, the treatment of Muslims before and after that date, and the religious and economic life of the Church, together with efforts to reform it. The chapter on culture discusses achievements in literature, art, architecture, music and drama, and assesses the influence on Spain of Humanism and the Renaissance. The book concludes with an evaluation of the achievements of the Catholic Monarchs, and their legacy to Charles V.John Edwards' book takes into account all the latest scholarship and research from Spain and provides a valuable introduction to this key period in Spanish history.
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