In the late fifteenth century, many of the Jews expelled from Spain
made their way to Morocco and established a dynamic community in
Fez. A number of Jewish families became prominent in commerce and
public life there. Among the Jews of Fez of Hispanic origin was
Samuel Pallache, who served the Moroccan sultan as a commercial and
diplomatic agent in Holland until Pallache's death in 1616. Before
that, he had tried to return with his family to Spain, and to this
end he tried to convert to Catholicism and worked as an informer,
intermediary, and spy in Moroccan affairs for the Spanish court.
Later he became a privateer against Spanish ships and was tried in
London for that reason. His religious identity proved to be as
mutable as his political allegiances: when in Amsterdam, he was
devoutly Jewish; when in Spain, a loyal converso (a baptized Jew).
In A Man of Three Worlds, Mercedes GarcA-a-Arenal and Gerard
Wiegers view Samuel Pallache's world as a microcosm of early modern
society, one far more interconnected, cosmopolitan, and fluid than
is often portrayed. Pallache's missions and misadventures took him
from Islamic Fez and Catholic Spain to Protestant England and
Holland. Through these travels, the authors explore the workings of
the Moroccan sultanate and the Spanish court, the Jewish
communities of Fez and Amsterdam, and details of the
Atlantic-Mediterranean trade. At once a sweeping view of two
continents, three faiths, and five nation-states and an intimate
story of one man's remarkable life, A Man of Three Worlds is
history at its most compelling.
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