Join Mexican novelist Gabriela Riveros Elizondo for a discussion of her 2022 historical novel, Olvidarás el Fuego (You'll forget the fire).  Elizondo will speak about her 2022 novel Olvidarás el Fuego (You'll forget the fire), which was inspired by the memoirs of Joseph Lumbroso (né Luis de Carvajal). Lumbroso was a poet, statesman, and one of the first Hispanic settlers of Northern Mexico. Moreover, he and his family were crypto-Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, but who remained in Spanish territory on the American continent while practicing Judaism in secret. Lumbroso and his family were eventually caught by the Inquisition in a political struggle over the Nuevo Reino de León (roughly Northeastern Mexico). Lumbroso was charged with being a "judaizante relapso pertinaz" (being a perpetual, relapsed Judaizer) and burned at the stake - along with members of his family - in 1596. He left behind him memoirs, letters, and a spiritual testament which together comprise the only surviving Jewish writings of the Spanish colonial period.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87079243671

Meeting ID: 870 7924 3671

This literary event is the first part of a two-part series exploring Mexican-Jewish culture in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Please join us as well on October 1st as we continue our celebration of Mexican-Jewish culture with a fundraising dinner.