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Farewell Espana : The World of the Sephardim Remembered by Howard M. Sachar (1995, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679738460

ISBN-139780679738466

eBay Product ID (ePID)193604

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Book TitleFarewell Espana : the World of the Sephardim Remembered

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicJudaism / History, Europe / Western, General, Judaism / Theology

Publication Year1995

GenreReligion, Fiction, History

AuthorHoward M. Sachar

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight13.2 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.2 in

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SynopsisFarewell Espana transcends conventional historical narrative. With the lucidity and verve that have characterized his numerous earlier volumes, Howard Sachar breathes life into the leading dramatis personae of the Sephardic world: the royal counselors Samuel ibn Nagrela and Joseph Nasi, the poets Solomon ibn Gabirol and Judah Halevi, the philosophers Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza, the statesmen Benjamin Disraeli and Pierre Mendes-France, the warriors Moshe Pijade and David Elazar, the fabulous charlatans David Reuveni and Shabbatai Zvi. In its breadth and richness of texture, Sachar's account sweeps to the contemporary era of Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, poignantly traces the fate of Balkan Sephardic communities during the Holocaust--and their revival in the Land and State of Israel. Not least of all, the author offers a tactile dimension of immediacy in his personal encounters with the storied venues and current personalities of the Sephardic world. Farewell Espana is a window opened on a glowing civilization once all but extinguished, and now flickering again into renewed creativity.