Jewish Guide Books?
Apr 3rd, 2003 | 09:09 AM
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I dont know of any first hand but did a search on bn.com and found 'Jewish Time-Travel: A Travel Narrative and Guide to Jewish Historic Sites in Europe and Israel' by Mae E. Sander. It included Spain, Italy, France and Israel.<BR>
Apr 3rd, 2003 | 09:24 AM
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This isn't exactly what you're looking for but it's still a great book: "Europe's Jewish Quarters" by Matthew Reisz<BR><BR>The chapters are about the Jewish Quarters in various European cities and, as I recall, there's one on Toledo, and perhaps one other city in Spain. Reisz does go into a fair amount of history in each chapter.
Apr 3rd, 2003 | 10:06 AM
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laurai,<BR>This isn't a tourist guide book, but it is a truly wonderful book first recommended by John S. here on the forum-"The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot-Marranos and Other Secret Jews" by Trudi Alexy. <BR>It's a fascinating read of first hand accounts of survivors who found aslylum during WWII in Spain- the "secret" Jews of the Franco regime. I was so glad that John shared it with us.
