The Secret Shofar of Barcelona
Jacqueline Dembar Greene, Douglas Chayka
Hardcover
(Kar-Ben Publishing, Aug. 1, 2009)
In the late 1500s, while the conductor of the Royal Orchestra of Barcelona prepares for a concert to celebrate SpainÂ’s colonies in the New World, his son secretly practices playing the Shofar to help Jews, who must hide their faith from the Inquisition, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah. Simultaneous.
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