Monday, March 28, 2011 - 5:00pm
In 1290, King Edward I expelled the Jews from England. In 1656, a small
community of Spanish Catholic merchants lived in London bound by a
sacred secret. They were all Portuguese Jews. This is the story of one
of them, Domingo de Lacerda, who learns early on that survival in
seventeenth-century Europe requires both deceit and conformity. But then
he meets Lucy, who has secrets of her own and who challenges Domingo to
question everything he has been taught to value. The political and
spiritual conflicts that characterized the Iberian Inquisition, the
English Civil War, and the English Interregnum provide a backdrop
against which Domingo must choose between his obligation to the Jewish
community that protects him and the Catholic woman who loves
him.Patricia O'Sullivan is the author of Hope of Israel and the
forthcoming, Legend of the Dead. She lives in Mississippi with her
family.
Event address:
160 Courthouse Sq
38655-3914 Oxford
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