Sloan’s con­tri­bu­tion is…in her selec­tion of just the right mate­r­i­al to cre­ate a com­pelling mosa­ic of Sephardic life….The four heroes she choos­es to profile—Isaac Abar­banel, Abra­ham Zacu­to, Luís de San­tán­gel and Gra­cia Nasi—are inspir­ing exam­ples of tal­ent­ed indi­vid­u­als whose efforts helped insure the sur­vival in exile of Iber­ian Jew­ish culture. 

David M. Gitlitz PhD
Author, Secre­cy and Deceit: The Reli­gion of the Cryp­to-Jews and A Driz­zle of Honey