Kritzler, E., (2008). Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press.
In a story in today's Wall Street Journal about Jamaica's Jews and their history, this book is mentioned. The author contends that Iberian Jews escaping the Inquisition landed in the Caribbean, and some became pirates.
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