Tombstone (Rome)

The outstanding feature of the religious situation in America today is the pervasiveness of religious self-identification along the tripartite scheme of Protestant, Catholic, Jew. From the “land of…

Manuel Levy Ximenes Belmonte (1729) and Esther de Pinto (1741)

The story of my life is only exceptional in that it represents a great change of identity in the heart of the Jewish people. [ . . . ] I was born a Jewish Algerian—a French citizen to boot—and during…