from the writing fragments vault #9
[from Enchantment of Land]
[Santa Fe, Viceroyalty of New Spain, 16--]
There was crypto-Jewish me, Maryam bint Rabbi Yusuf; my crypto-Muslim husband, Ibrahim ibn Yuhanna al-Muthallithi; and my big sister, Yasmin bint Rabbi Yusuf, who calls herself a "bruja of the old ways," whatever that means, though I suspect her of turning heathen. Ke Dio mos guarde.
We had been denounced by our neighbors and expelled along with our mother from Valencia in 16--. My sister and I were only twenty-seven and eighteen then. My new husband emigrated with us, determined not to let the oppressive rule of the Nasara divide our family. At Cádiz we found lodging in the rough part of town, near the docks. Many ships were sailing from there, often taking Morisco refugees to the Barbary Coast. The streets were crowded, and the wharves were chaotic.
Outside my family and synagogue, I was known as María, my husband as Abrahán, and my sister as Ysabel.
♀
[Santa Fe, Viceroyalty of New Spain, 16--]
There was crypto-Jewish me, Maryam bint Rabbi Yusuf; my crypto-Muslim husband, Ibrahim ibn Yuhanna al-Muthallithi; and my big sister, Yasmin bint Rabbi Yusuf, who calls herself a "bruja of the old ways," whatever that means, though I suspect her of turning heathen. Ke Dio mos guarde.
We had been denounced by our neighbors and expelled along with our mother from Valencia in 16--. My sister and I were only twenty-seven and eighteen then. My new husband emigrated with us, determined not to let the oppressive rule of the Nasara divide our family. At Cádiz we found lodging in the rough part of town, near the docks. Many ships were sailing from there, often taking Morisco refugees to the Barbary Coast. The streets were crowded, and the wharves were chaotic.
Outside my family and synagogue, I was known as María, my husband as Abrahán, and my sister as Ysabel.
♀