Dona Gracia's Secret

Author : Marilyn Froggatt

Paperback

Published : Saturday 18 April 2020

ISBN : 9789657023082

Price : €12.86

Description

This narrative biography for young adults brings to life the dramatic story of Doña Gracia Nasi, born in Portugal in 1510 into a Sephardic Jewish family forced to pose as Christians to survive the brutal Inquisition. She discovered her family was secretly Jewish in her teens, promising her dying mother that she would live according to Judaic traditions and do all she could to help other secret Jews escape persecution. She kept that perilous promise for the rest of her life. After being widowed by her wealthy husband, Don Francisco Mendes, Doña Gracia achieved success as an internationally.

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