The Shaman and the Jew (Paperback)

WANDERING JEW From the cataclysmic termination of Moorish Muslim Spain by the Christian armies in the early 15th century until near total annihilation of the Karankawa indian tribe in the Southwestern United States, the family of Juan Diego Camerino de Valencia, esteemed Jewish physician and confidant to the Sultan of Granada, struggled for survival under horrendous odds. Finding it necessary to conceal his Jewish ancestry or face certain death, Dr. Diego's only son, Antonio fled the approaching armies and the Spanish Inquisition torturers to venture to the New World recently discovered by Christopher Columbus. Rather than finding security, Antonio was confronted with new threats to him and his newly-found friends, the Karankawa. Hostile Apache Indians, proselytizing Catholic priests and European settlers threaten to eradicate the Karankawa and with it, end the line of gifted Jewish physicians that stretched back to the earliest days.