This article, which appeared in the Review of Rabbinic Judaism, explores the phenomenon of social commentary disguised in literature, as composed by the "New Christians" - Jewish Conversos living in an inhospitable Christian environment. As Conversos entered the foreign world of Christian Spain, they brought with them literary styles and works that pushed the country past the "Middle Ages" and its "Renaissance" into a golden age that preceded the rise of "modern" culture in the West. Converso literature proposed to, subtly and indirectly, expose the dysfunctional reality of life in Christian Spain; an unparalleled example of such literary commentary can be found in the book "Don Quixote," written by Miguel Cervantes.