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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean

Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM (MT)

Boulder, CO

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How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved out an Empire in the New World in their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom – and Revenge

Sunday, November 15 @ 6 PM
Boulder JCC
3800 Kalmia Avenue
Boulder, CO 80301

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Cost: $20 includes Caribbean dinner, author presentation and book signing, free for students with a valid student ID

Ahoy Vey! Enjoy a Caribbean dinner and hear the fascinating history of Jewish merchants and adventures who escaped the Spanish Inquisitions at the dawn of the age of exploration. Assuming new identities in the New World, they became aligned with enemies of the Spanish in the Caribbean and lived off plunder, which helped break the Spanish empire and the evil Inquisition it spread around the world.

Author Edward Kritzler, a historian and former USA today reporter who lives in Jamaica, has produced a breezy historical tale of swashbuckling exploits, with a journalist’s eye for detail.

“Surprising adventures on the high seas with some rogues of the Diaspora.” – Kirkus Review