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The last Jew / Noah Gordon.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.O68 L37 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Noah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Spain.
- Spain--History--Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516--Fiction.
- Jews--Spain--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Inquisition--Fiction.
- Inquisition.
- Healers--Fiction.
- Healers.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 348 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all Spain in its grip. And then begins not a pogrom but a true holocaust. Several hundred thousand Jews are expelled, given little time to flee, and slaughtered even before they can escape. Jonah, the 13-year-old son of a Toledo silversmith, sees his father and brother die in these terrible days. But faced with a choice of renouncing his faith, he decides to honor his beliefs -- and so begins a dramatic journey zigzagging across Spain, all the while eluding the brutal agents of the Inquisition. In time, Jonah will find love, peace, and a career as a healer, a physician. In The Last Jew, Noah Gordon returns to his greatest strengths, and the result is both remarkable and moving.
- Notes:
- "Thomas Dunne books."
- ISBN:
- 0312265042
- OCLC:
- 43881623
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