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The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon Free FREE THE LAST KABBALIST OF LISBON PDF Richard Zimler | 464 pages | 19 Jun 2014 | Little, Brown Book Group | 9781472112101 | English | London, United Kingdom The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, by Richard Zimler | Reform Judaism Berekiah Zarco and his uncle, Abraham, are defiantly Jewish Kabbalists at a time when it was extremely dangerous to be so. Still, they keep up appearances as Christians The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon Abraham smuggles religious and philosophical texts out of the country to safer places. But then forces conspire to destroy their way of life. Berekiah is a passionate man. He loves his family. He also feels constantly simmering fury at the Old Christians who have forced the The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon underground. But then, on April 19,a massacre erupts as Old Christians violently attack Jews and converts, blaming them for the ongoing drought and an outbreak of plague. Berekiah had been sent out of the city on an errand only to return to a scene straight out of hell. Jews are in hiding while Christians roam the streets looking for victims. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon he does reach home, he finds his uncle murdered in their cellar with an unknown woman. He hunts down clues while also trying to find the missing members of his family, who scattered when the mob roared through. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon recreates the city and the lives of the Jews and converts who tried to make a home there. Zimler poured historical research into the story without bogging down the full tilt plot. This book will be a great read for historical fiction buffs so long as they have a strong stomach. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. 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Under the Alfonsine Dynasty, Jews were granted special privileges—exemptions from church taxes and freedom to follow their faith as well as some of the highest and most influential positions The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon the royal court. Jews were also prominent doctors, botanists, scholars, artisans and political advisers. One enterprising Sephardic woman, Gracia Nasi, created a financial network across Europe. These centuries of largely peaceful integration came to an end in the late 15th century. In hopes of retaining Jewish know-how, the Portuguese generally preferred coercion to expulsion. Even Jews who renounced their faith were not safe. Tens of thousands The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon so-called New Christians were burned at the stake in The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon homegrown Inquisition, and most covert Jews with The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon fled to places such as Greece, Italy, Turkey, Holland and the New World. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon Christians who could not emigrate stayed behind, secretly practicing crypto-Jewish rites. Only in was the Portuguese Inquisition officially abolished. Nor was there any official government acknowledgment of past wrongs or any markers or restorations that indicated the country had a Jewish history. For the past 24 years, Zimler has worked tirelessly from a contemporary duplex condo in Foz. Nearby we look out over the blue expanse where the Douro River, lined with the steep terraces that produce Port wine, empties into the Atlantic. I feel instantly drawn to this lanky, chuckling man with a wide brow and deep-set blue eyes. He is dressed in a rainbow-colored scarf and floppy pants, which make him appear youthful for half-clown and half-muse. Like a tall—and intellectual—grasshopper, as a friend would aptly describe him. And Zimler tops off his unpretentious and caring manner by displaying a confident Portuguese with loud The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon York intonations, revealing that he is as unabashed in his embrace of his adopted land in life as in writing. It was love at first sight, and they have been a couple for 36 years—a partnership confirmed as soon as gay marriage was legalized in Portugal in Instead, it was the modern-day plague of AIDS. InZimler watched helplessly as his beloved older brother Jerry died of the disease. For a long time, it was as if I were carrying Death around in my pocket. And I found Judaism was such a wonderful compendium of mythology and storytelling. Zimler The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon also drawn to a Jewish school of thought with Iberian roots: Kabbalah. It was as if I had been seeing only the surface of a vast ocean, and now—after learning a bit about Kabbalah—I could see a few feet down into its great depths. The symbolic reasoning of the Jewish mystics, and, in particular, their poetic approach to the Torah, have enhanced my understanding not only of Judaism, but of myself and the world as well. It begins in Istanbul, inspired by a true encounter that occurred while Zimler was researching the book. The setting is the massacre—alternately known as the Lisbon Massacre, the Lisbon Pogrom or the Easter Slaughter—which took place over Passover and was led by Dominican priests and joined by many in the city. More than 1, Jews were slaughtered The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon burned at the stake over three days. Staub, professor of Jewish philosophy and spirituality at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Pennsylvania. The marker on the site of the Lisbon Massacre. The book that would make him a household name in Portugal sat unpublished for nearly five years. The Last Kabbalist was rejected by 24 American publishers. He figured that his short-lived literary career was over. Instead, helped mostly by word-of-mouth and a single newspaper review, after two weeks the book was number one on the Portuguese best seller list. The Last Kabbalist has been a best seller in 13 countries and was named Book of the Year by three British critics. It has come out in 23 languages. And this year, production is scheduled to begin on a German-financed The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon film based on the book, with Danish Academy The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon Bille August set to direct. After the fall of the dictatorship inpeople were permitted to explore subjects long repressed, such as the history of Jews in Portugal. Even before I began reading Zimler, I had noticed how pleased the Portuguese I met seemed to be when I told them I was Jewish, a pronouncement met almost uni-versally with an eagerness to declare that they, too, were somehow related to those once-shameful New Christians. This newfound interest has reverberated through intellectual circles, says Zimler. This new awareness—in a land still Catholic enough to shut tight on Sundays—has been reflected on an official level. This was more complicated than correcting the outright expulsion in Spain—the neighbor Portuguese hate and love, but especially dislike being confused with. Jewish tourism is also afoot. Z imler has proved to be far more than a one-pogrom pony, going on to write nine more books of historical fiction thus far. In his latest novel, The Night WatchmanZimler departs from his usual use of Jewish characters and themes: A bicultural and bipolar police inspector in Portugal investigates the murder of a well-connected Portuguese businessman which enmeshes him in a lurid world of shady political corruption and sexual violence that triggers memories from his childhood. The author has also ventured into more controversial territory. Zimler is not without critics. There are occasional grumblings that his prose is too populist. Several of his books have won important prizes in Europe, and all nine have been Portuguese best sellers—four went on to be number one. In a country where book sales of 2, are considered decent, The Last Kabbalist has sold over 60, In addition, several books have proven popular in the United Kingdom— The Warsaw Anagrams was a Kindle best seller there. Yet Zimler has not been similarly lauded, or even read much, in the land of his birth. Why he is less renowned at home is unclear. You read him to immerse yourself in first-rate fiction that The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon the realities and dilemmas of Jewish lives to light. L iterary fame has given Zimler the stature to become an advocate for progressive causes in a traditionally conservative culture. The private man has embraced a public agenda—making a point, unlike most expats, of actively engaging in local causes. He has been open in his criticism of his adopted country. He has The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon taken to The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon his opinions about the current state of Portuguese affairs on his website. Ultimately, among young The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, the talk turns to the fact that he is openly gay.
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