Crypto-Jew Series

The very year Columbus sailed for the Americas Spain issued an edict expelling the Jews from Spain.
The Spanish Diaspora thickly seeded the Americas with Jewish families from Argentina to New Mexico.

Disguised as Catholic converts to escape the dreaded Inquisition they carried on their Judaic traditions in secret for so many
generations that some modern descendants have forgotten why - but even now they still light the candles.
The story of the Crypto Jews has captured the imagination of Jews and Gentiles alike, stimulated considerable
writing and art; it has provoked discussion in rabbinic circles and provoked controversy. And for some it has
been a personal homecoming, for others an identity crisis.

All the paintings are very detailed, the lace, the bones in the fingers, the vegetation, making the fantastic look real.