
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
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).