The Woman Who Defied Kings: The Life and Times of Doña Gracia Nasi

Brooks, Andrà e Aelion

ISBN 10: 1557788057 ISBN 13: 9781557788054
Verlag: Paragon House Publishers, 2002
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One wintry day early in 1535, merchant banker Francisco Mendes lay dying in his whitewashed, tile-roofed home near the royal palace in Lisbon. It was a pivotal moment for his elegant wife Beatrice, later known as Dona Gracia Nasi. The death of Francisco, one of Europe's wealthiest spice traders, offered Dona Gracia, still in her twenties, an unsettling mix of promise and peril.
So begins the remarkable rise to power of one of the greatest Jewish women of all time; an international woman banker who used her family's fortune and access to the royal courts of Europe to save thousands of her people from torture, ruin and death at the brutal hands of Inquisition officials.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Andrée Aelion Brooks is a journalist, author, and lecturer specializing in Jewish history topics. For nearly two decades she was a contributing columnist and news writer for The New York Times. She wrote the award-winning book Children of Fast Track Parents. She founded the Women's Campaign School at Yale University, where she is an associate fellow, and served as the director/editor of an important teaching series for 5-7th graders in Sephardic Jewish history and culture called "Out of Spain." Over forty years of published work including: more than 2,000 articles in The New York Times over an eighteen year span; countless pieces in other newspapers and magazines, such as The New York Times Magazine, European Judaism, Equity, McCalls, Glamour, Reform Judaism, Hadassah Magazine, and Historic Preservation.

ANDRÉE AELION BROOKS is a journalist, author and lecturer specializing in Jewish history topics. For nearly two decades she was a contributing columnist and news writer for the New York Times. She wrote the award-winning book Children of Fast Track Parents. She founded the Women's Campaign School at Yale University, where she is an Associate Fellow, and served as the director/editor of an important teaching series for 5-7th graders in Sephardic Jewish history and culture called "Out of Spain."
Over forty years of published work including: more than 2,000 articles in the New York Times during an eighteen year span; countless pieces in other newspapers and magazines including The New York Times Magazine, European Judaism (academic journal), Equity (Worth), McCalls, Glamour, Reform Judaism, Hadassah Magazine, Historic Preservation, among many other

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Titel: The Woman Who Defied Kings: The Life and ...
Verlag: Paragon House Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Einband: Hardcover
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