Luis De Torres Synagogue is the only synagogue in the Bahamas. Named after Luis de Torres, a Jewish Marrano who sailed with Christopher Columbus to the new world, it is situated between two churches.
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“The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)