Luis de Carvajal the Younger, Spain, Mexico, Inquisition martyr, 17 Kislev 5357

Luis de Carvajal the Younger (also Luis de Carabajal) died at the stake in the Inquisition on Dec. 8, 1596, after being tortured and denouncing (and then recanting his confessions) his entire family.
De Carvajal has been the subject of many books, and even an opera (”Carvajal“ in recent years, because of his story’s drama and [...]

Norman Mailer, 84, U.S. author, Nov. 10

The words have not stopped flowing since author Norman Mailer, 84, died November 10, 2007, of renal failure. He has been called a Jewish pugilist, a towering writer with a matching ego, and nothing if not ambitious.
We call him the greatest Jewish-American novelist who never wrote about Jewish subjects. It was Mailer’s ambition to get [...]