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Summary: Isabel Perez is a sixteen-year-old who dreams of writing poetry, love, and being with the young nobleman Diego Altamirano; but in Trujillo, Spain in 1481 such a love is forbidden by the boy's family because Isabel's families are conversos, new Christians,but in the privacy of their home they still practice Judaism--a secret that could destroy them all when the Inquisition reaches Trujillo and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GORMenocal, Maria Rosa.
Summary: Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.02 MENRoth, Rita.
Summary: Presents a collection of thirteen Sephardic folk tales based on tales collected by the Israel Folktales Archives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jewish Publication Society 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ROTSummary: This remarkable story from the past is especially timely today. Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this film retraces the 800 years in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ORNLevine, Gail Carson
Summary: From age seven, Loma relishes traveling with her beloved grandfather across fifteenth-century Spain, working to keep the Jews safe, but soon realizes she must also make sacrifices to help her people. Includes historical notes, recipe, glossary, and a linkto a bibliography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVSass, A. J.
Summary: "Ellen, an autistic thirteen-year-old, navigates a new city, shifting friendships, a growing crush, and her queer and Jewish identities while on a class trip to Barcelona, Spain"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SASNetanyahu, B
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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Summary: From award-winning novelist Mary Morris comes the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to grips with a dark history it never imagined. In 1492, the Jewish and Muslim populations of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for America. Luis de Torres, a Spanish Jew, accompanies Columbus as his interpreter. His journey is only the beginning of a long migration, across many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORSass, A. J.
Summary: "Ellen Katz isn't like the other kids in her class. She knows most thirteen-year-olds don't need to plan out every detail of their lives, or retreat into the quiet when life gets overwhelming, or list everything and everyone in neat categories in a journal. She's always felt accepted by her best-and-only friend, Laurel, who treats the fact that Ellen is autistic like it's no big deal. Only,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "A riveting on-the-edge-of-your-seat story about the famous 1970s Patty Hearst-style kidnapping of Baron Edouard "Wado" Empain, juxtaposed with the story of his famous grandfather, the first Baron, who built the Paris Metro, all with the fascinating alternating backgrounds of both Belle Epoque and 1970s high-fashion Paris. What does it take to create a dynasty? What does it take to keep one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 SANSummary: Many Latinos in the American Southwest wear amulets and perform certain practices different from their fellow Latino Catholics-and are discovering only now, to their great amazement, that they are descended from Jews who chose conversion rather than death at the time of the great expulsion from Spain in 1492. This program looks at remnants of what was once the great Jewish civilization in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program addresses the expansion of the Arab empire into Spain, where Muslims ruled with tolerance for more than seven centuries. The introduction and consolidation of Islamic power in Spain, the creation of the Umayyad emirate by the sole survivor of the Umayyad dynasty, the rise of Cordoba as a cultural rival of Abbasid Baghdad, and the gradual ebb of Arab rule on the Iberian Peninsula...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The legend of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West. Jesse James is the bold bandit whose name became synonymous with train hold-ups, daylight bank heists and every other daredevil crime associated with the lawless West of the 1800s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JESJohnson, Dave
Summary: A good woodcutter . . .. . . uses the best equipment, and works safely. A good woodcutter works responsibly to get the best yield from the woodlot. A good woodcutter loves the forest and manages it with an eye for future generations. The Good Woodcutter's Guide is the first book in more than two decades to focus on the essential tools and information that enable owners of small woodlots to gain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelesa Green Pub. 1998