Jonathan Schorsch has a gold mine of information in The Hidden Lives of Jews and Africans . Research and interpreting against the grain of information is a new technique I've never heard of before reading this book. There are some editing errors and Schorsch needs an editor to clean up his writing; it was hard to keep track of the main narrative of the book at times. I felt like each chapter was its own essay that had been compiled for this book. I appreciate the main premise of The Hidden Lives of Jews and Africans ; seeing how Jewish conversos and Afroiberans perceived each other in Atlantic society sparks so many ideas and thoughts in my mind about situations and research topics. I think it is a tragic part of history that there aren't more primary sources on things because of a lack of literacy or care on the part of people back then. Jonathan Schorsch does produce many definite answers in The Hidden Lives of Jews and Africans but he produces ideas and questions that stick with the reader after they've finished this book.