Saturday, April 10, 2010

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
by Edward Kritzler

I thought that this book would be intriguing. I should have known better with such a long title.
The premise is in order to avoid persecution in the Old World, Jews took to the seas.
In much better hands, this book could have been promising. The author is a historian and a journalist and it shows. He writes as if he's a reporter. It's very boring, with too many characters thrown at you at once, and he's repetitious.
Needless to say, I didn't get too far.
Don't bother with this one.

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