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David Gitlitz, 78, scholar of Sephardic Jewish history January 21, 2021 9:59 am David Gitlitz was remembered by a family friend as a "great walking living library. He knew about everything!!" (Courtesy of Maryjane Dunn)
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(JTA) — When David Gitlitz first walked the Camino de Santiago, a network of pilgrimage trails in northwestern Spain dating to the Middle Ages, he was a young professor at Indiana University. The 500-mile trek became an enduring fascination for Gitlitz and his wife, the late Linda Kay Davidson, whom he met on that first trip in 1974.
They would return to the trail four times over the next 22 years and published multiple books on the history and cultures of pilgrimages around the world, including one specifically focusing on the Camino. Both academics, the pair’s first collaboration had been a cookbook, “Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain’s Secret Jews,” which won a National Jewish Book Award in 1999. Gitlitz had won the award three years earlier for his book “Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto Jews.”
(JTA) — When David Gitlitz first walked the Camino de Santiago, a network of pilgrimage trails in northwestern Spain dating to the Middle Ages, he was a young professor at Indiana University. The 500-mile trek became an enduring fascination for Gitlitz and his wife, the late Linda Kay Davidson, whom he met on that first trip in 1974.
They would return to the trail four times over the next 22 years and published multiple books on the history and cultures of pilgrimages around the world, including one specifically focusing on the Camino. Both academics, the pair’s first collaboration had been a cookbook, “Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain’s Secret Jews,” which won a National Jewish Book Award in 1999. Gitlitz had won the award three years earlier for his book “Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto Jews.”