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Book Excerpt...
Chapter One, Grazia
Edict of Expulsion:
31st of March, 1492
Accused of ritual murder in Granada and not under jurisdiction of
the Inquisition, the Church orders expulsion of all Jews and
Marranos from Spain within four months.
Granada, Spain
2 Ab 5252 (4 August 1492)
“Hermando, no. Please. Hanna’s still a girl. She made a mistake.” My
mother appealed to my father even as she, too, made preparations for
our long journey. The air in the front room of our home that served
as our place of trade reeked with anger and frustration. Despair
replaced hope. Three months had passed since the Edict of Expulsion
on the thirty-first of Adar. Originally we were to leave on the
first day of Ab but the monarchs in their cruel contempt gave us one
more day.
“No!” my father shouted, gathering stacks of Byzantine silks and
flax linen. Furious, he stuffed them into large hemp bags. A swath
of crimson tapestry fell to the floor.
“But Hanna’s only fourteen.”
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