Farewell Espana: The World of the Sephardim Remembered

by Howard M. Sachar

Book Overview

Farewell Espana transcends conventional historical narrative. With the lucidity and verve that have characterized his numerous earlier volumes, Howard Sachar breathes life into the leading dramatis personae of the Sephardic world: the royal counselors Samuel ibn Nagrela and Joseph Nasi, the poets Solomon ibn Gabirol and Judah Halevi, the philosophers Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza, the statesmen Benjamin Disraeli and Pierre Mendes-France, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679738460
• ISBN13: 9780679738466
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic introduction to Sephardic History

If you are at all interested in the history of the Sephardic people this is the book to get. Sachar takes you on a journey from the plains of Al-andalus to the deserts of the Ottoman Empire, the thriving metropolis of the Dutch, to the modern state of Israel. The book is utterly readable and reads less like a dry history book and more like a novel where the central character is an entire nation. There is relatively little in the way of books about the Sephardic experience, and those that do exist for the most part are stiff and scholarly. Sachar makes it palatable while at the same time showing an incredible breath of knowledge and research that went into this book. BUY IT NOW!