The Alhambra Decree

Raphael, David

ISBN 10: 0962077208 / ISBN 13: 9780962077203

Published by Carmi House Press, 1988

About this Item

1st printing. Crisp and unmarked, NF/VG. Full cloth binding. 358pp. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. Novel about the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Seller Inventory # 067922

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Alhambra Decree
• Publisher: Carmi House Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962077208
• ISBN 13: 9780962077203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

Three momentous events in the history of Spain took place in 1492: Columbus' discovery of America, the fall of the last Moorish bastion in Granada, and the expulsion of the Jews.

THE ALHAMBRA DECREE is a well-researched novel that vividly reconstructs the forces and the events surrounding the Edict of Expulsion declared by Ferdinand and Isabella, and that graphically relates the misfortunes and calamities that befell the dispersed Jewish exiles. Focusing upon the Jewish community of Segovia, the book describes the mass uprooting and dispersion of Spanish Jewry. Based upon original medieval Hebrew and Spanish documents, many of them eye-witness accounts, the horrifying tale of the expulsion is told as never before.