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Skip to main content Jewish Book Council, founded in 1943, is the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature. Get the latest reviews, news, and more in your inbox. Review By – March 3, 2025 When the rulers of Christian Spain, and later Portugal, demanded that their Jewish subjects convert or leave their homeland, many sought a viable compromise.
By – January 11, 2022 Michael Leventhal and Laura Catalán’s new picture book tells the surprising story of Jewish refugees from Spain who brought chocolate to France in the seventeenth century. Weaving together fairy tale elements and history, Leventhal illustrates the persistence of one Jewish family as they enrich the culture of their new home.
Early in my writing career, I attended an event at the University of Washington discussing the presence of Sephardic Jews in Seattle. I was probably the youngest person in the audience. Most were the children or grandchildren of settlers from the 1900s, who had made their way across the ocean, then the continent, at the fall of the Ottoman Empire. They now form the third largest Sephardic community in the United States, after New York and Boston.
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