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inquisition

Essay

The Mik­vah

Daniela Weil
November 16, 2020
Interview

JBC Authors at the Table: Gail Car­son Levine

Gail Car­son Levine
June 15, 2020
Chil­dren’s
A Ceil­ing Made of Eggshells
Gail Car­son Levine
Essay

Gob­s­macked by Medieval Spain

Gail Car­son Levine
May 26, 2020
Non­fic­tion
The Con­ver­so’s Return: Con­ver­sion and Sephar­di His­to­ry in Con­tem­po­rary Lit­er­a­ture and Culture
Dalia Kandiyoti
Fic­tion
Walk Till You Disappear
Jacque­line Dem­bar Greene
Fic­tion
Shad­ow of the Black Flame
Misha Sauce­da
Fic­tion
Gate­way to the Moon: A Novel
Mary Mor­ris
Fic­tion
The Inquisitor’s Wife: A Nov­el of Renais­sance Spain
Jeanne Kalogridis
Fic­tion
The Map­mak­er’s Daughter
Lau­rel Corona
Non­fic­tion
The Span­ish Holo­caust: Inqui­si­tion and Exter­mi­na­tion in Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Spain
Paul Preston
Non­fic­tion
Between Chris­t­ian and Jew: Con­ver­sion and Inqui­si­tion in the Crown of Aragon, 1250 – 1391
Paola Tartakoff
Non­fic­tion
Inquisi­to­r­i­al Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Oth­er Heretics
Richard L. Kagan; Abigail Dyer, eds. and trans.
Essay

Genet­ic Mem­o­ry: Feel­ing Jewish

Ear­li­er this week, Doreen Car­va­jal wrote about try­ing to recov­er her fam­i­ly’s secret iden­ti­ty and how to unlock and pre­serve mem­o­ries. She has been blog­ging…
Doreen Car­va­jal
August 17, 2012
Essay

Unlock­ing Memories

Ear­li­er this week, Doreen Car­va­jal wrote about try­ing to recov­er her fam­i­ly’s secret iden­ti­ty. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book…
Doreen Car­va­jal
August 15, 2012
Essay

Hunt­ing Fam­i­ly Ghosts

Doreen Car­va­jal​’s first book, The For­get­ting Riv­er, is about her search to recov­er her Catholic fam­i­ly’s hid­den Sephardic Jew­ish roots in a mys­ti­cal white…
Doreen Car­va­jal
August 13, 2012

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