Farewell Espana: The World of the Sephardim Remembered - Howard M. Sachar - Google Books

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Farewell 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…