Two Jewish responses to the Spanish Inquisition.(Heretics)(Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The...

Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile, by Renee Levine Melammed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 268 pp., $55.

The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas, by Mordecai Arbell. Jerusalem and Hewlitt, NY: Gefen Books, 2002, 384 pp., $34.95.

The Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 15th century produced a number of different responses, varying from attempts to remain and secretly practice Jewish tradit