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Doreen Carvajal: The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity and the Inquisition

(Memoir, 320 p. 2012)

After relocating to Arcos de la Frontera, in the Spanish province where her father’s family originated, Carvajal explores the fascinating, fraught — and ultimately personal — history of the Sephardic Jews who had been forced into Catholic conversion or exile.

  • Discussion questions
  • Kirkus review
  • Review by Linda F. Burghardt, Jewish Book Council, April 23, 2012
  • Profile of Doreen Carvajal by Janet Silver Ghent, J Weekly, November 8, 2012
  • David B. Green interviews Doreen Carvajal, Ha’aretz, August 2012
  • Book trailer (3 min.)