diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.2.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.2.txt
index ea59f3fbf493a..af8f561f39aac 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.2.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.2.txt
@@ -96,3 +96,5 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in ``.plot(kind='kde')`` which did not drop missing values to generate the KDE Plot, instead generating an empty plot. (:issue:`14821`)
 
 - Bug in ``unstack()`` if called with a list of column(s) as an argument, regardless of the dtypes of all columns, they get coerced to ``object`` (:issue:`11847`)
+
+-Bug in indexing that transformed ``RecursionError`` into ``KeyError`` or ``IndexingError`` (:issue:`14554`) 
diff --git a/pandas/core/indexing.py b/pandas/core/indexing.py
index c4ae3dcca8367..107d68c192ead 100755
--- a/pandas/core/indexing.py
+++ b/pandas/core/indexing.py
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ def _multi_take(self, tup):
                 [(a, self._convert_for_reindex(t, axis=o._get_axis_number(a)))
                  for t, a in zip(tup, o._AXIS_ORDERS)])
             return o.reindex(**d)
-        except:
+        except(KeyError, IndexingError):
             raise self._exception
 
     def _convert_for_reindex(self, key, axis=0):