Trudi Alexy

This book was emotionally exhausting even before I was halfway through the book. Yet the journeys are incredible, first of a Czec girl who does not even see herself as Jewish until many years later, and then recounting the journeys and lives of many other Jews of Spanish origin, modern or medieval, and their often tense relationship with Spain. I'd not realized that Franco had ever, even if only during the last few years of the war, allowed or helped any Spanish Jews to come into Spain to escape the Nazis (yemach shemo). Even if it was only in the hope of using their international business connections to help the Spanish economy. :-(… (más)

This book was emotionally exhausting even before I was halfway through the book. Yet the journeys are incredible, first of a Czec girl who does not even see herself as Jewish until many years later, and then recounting the journeys and lives of many other Jews of Spanish origin, modern or medieval, and their often tense relationship with Spain. I'd not realized that Franco had ever, even if only during the last few years of the war, allowed or helped any Spanish Jews to come into Spain to escape the Nazis (yemach shemo). Even if it was only in the hope of using their international business connections to help the Spanish economy. :-(… (más)