Flora Cassen

Associate Professor of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies and of History, Washington University in St Louis

Flora Cassen is chair of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern studies, and associate professor of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern studies and of history at Washington University in St Louis. She is the author of Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy: Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Written by Flora Cassen

Painting of a historical scene with ships and a group of people onshore, central figure holding a flag in a tropical setting.

Hidden in translation – Jewish resistance to Spanish empire

Translation as a powerful form of resistance: how a 16th-century Sephardic Jew conquered the colonial narrative from Spain

by Flora Cassen