Agenda

In the last blue

Reading group of the 'Call'

Thursday, April 3,

Call de Girona

In the last blue, Carme Riera (Destino, 1994)

During the Spanish Inquisition on the island of Majorca, a small enclave of local Jews--all of whom have been baptized as Christians--determine to escape detention in the Inquisition by escaping to lands of freedom across the Atlantic. But weather frustrates their flight, and eventually thirty-seven of them were captured and condemned to burn at the stake in the Auto-de-Fe.

Book available in the library of the Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies and in the museum shop.