Conversos of the Americas

About the Book

Conversos of the Americas highlights a barbaric and gruesome religious episode, namely the Spanish-Portuguese Inquisition, Spanish Civil War, and explores the subtle and hidden identity of the New World Hispanics, most of whom are descendants of Jews who have merged with Native Peoples of the Americas and from Africa. There are few descendants from Mexico´s conversos except for crypt-Jews who could not flee North to New Mexico. It is written to teach readers about our multi-ethnic world, the horrors of religious intolerance, the newest practices of Islamic hate and murders. Interestingly, this book includes twenty pictures showing in detail the barbaric events and individuals, illustrated by master artists of Spain and beyond.

About the Author

Keith Fogel earned his Masters Degree in Literature from the California State University, and a Masters in Business Administration. He has published other prose and poetry works. He was born in Middletown, Ohio and grew up between Brooklyn, N.Y., and Los Angeles, California. He now resides in the Denver area, with his family, and is the father of four sons. His aunt, Marian E. Fogel, is his father’s sister, who encouraged his work on the thesis and then collaborated on the full manuscript for this book. She has moved between newspaper reporting and medical-laboratory work, which served as background for her Veterinary research, for which she has been honored with membership in the New York Academy of Sciences, under her married name of Roseig. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and has lived between the mountain region of the Catskills and the foothills above New York City.