ABSTRACT
Angelina Muníz-Huberman is the author of, among other books of fiction and nonfiction, Enclosed Garden (1988), Dulcinea Encantada (Enchanted Didcinea, 1992), and Las Confidentes (The Confidants, 1997). She has been instrumental in uncovering the crypto-Jewish heritage in Mexican culture in particular, and Hispanic civilization in general, as is displayed in her anthology La lengua florida: Antología sefardí (The Florid Tongue, 1989). El mercader de Tudela (The Merchant of Tudela, 1998) is a postmodern novel about the twelfth century Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela (see entry on Benjamin of Tudela). This chapter comes early in the book, setting Tudela's quest in perspective.
