8 rows · · Richard Zimler was born in New York and studied journalism at Stanford University. He has Brand: ABRAMS. Despite the recent embrace of Kabbalah as the contemporary celebrity spiritual plaything, it’s unlikely that the Hollywood pack will spend many hours studying the intricacies of this willfully arcane first novel by an American writer who lives and teaches in Portugal. First published there (to wide acclaim) in Zimler’s own Portuguese translation, it’s a murder mystery set in Lisbon in the early 16th century: a . · Instead, they all pushed at me the prolific output of a fellow American interloper, beginning with The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, a page-turning thriller featuring Lisbon’s 16th-century Jewish community, published in His name is Richard Zimler, and in Portugal, this transplanted New York Jew is a perennial best seller—the equivalent of Dan Brown infused with Elie bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins.
Richard Zimler talks about his novel"The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon". A gripping literary mystery in the tradition of The Name of the Rose, set among a secret Jewish community living in Lisbon in the sixteenth century. 'I loved The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon.'. John Le Carré. About the Author. Richard Zimler was born in New York but has lived in Portugal for the past 30 years. The year is , and the streets of Lisbon are seething with fear and suspicion when Abraham Zarco is found dead, a naked girl at his side. Abraham was a renowned kabbalist, a practitioner of the arcane mysteries of the Jewish tradition at a time when the Jews of Portugal were forced to convert to Christianity.
Despite the recent embrace of Kabbalah as the contemporary celebrity spiritual plaything, it’s unlikely that the Hollywood pack will spend many hours studying the intricacies of this willfully arcane first novel by an American writer who lives and teaches in Portugal. First published there (to wide acclaim) in Zimler’s own Portuguese translation, it’s a murder mystery set in Lisbon in the early 16th century: a time of wholesale persecution and executions of Jews (who refused to convert. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, an international bestseller, is an extraordinary novel that transports listeners into the universe of Jewish Kabbalah during the Lisbon massacre of April Just a few years earlier, Jews living in Portugal were dragged to the baptismal font and forced to convert to Christianity. Richard Zimler was born in New York and studied journalism at Stanford University. He has.
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