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The first VCR my family ever owned came to us with a Betamax tape of a film recorded from television, commercials and all. The film was Michael Curtiz’s 1941 feature Casablanca. My parents assured my nine-year-old self that I would enjoy the movie about one of the greatest love stories ever told. I indeed ended up loving the film and understanding very little of it.
In the film, the family is not named. My grandmother was long gone by the time I started writing my novel Kantika, which uses her migration story as a springboard. I emailed the link to the film to my uncle David, who was ninety-two and sharp as a tack, and called to ask him to check his email. Ten minutes later, he called me back: “Holy cow! Where the hell did you find that?
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.
By – November 1, 2011 Talented children’s author Jacqueline Dembar Greene mixes a high holiday with scary Jewish history during the Spanish Inquisition in a little known Sephardic legend. The conductor of the Barcelona Orchestra is a Converso; he will lead a concert celebrating the Spanish colonies on the first night of Rosh Hashanah.
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