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

by Andrée Aelion Brooks

Book Overview

The Woman Who Defied Kings is the first modern, comprehensive biography of Do a Gracia Nasi, an outstanding Jewish international banker during the Renaissance. A courageous leader, she used her wealth and connections to operate an underground railroad that saved hundreds of her fellow Spanish and Portuguese conversos (Jews who had been forced to convert to Catholicism) from the horrors of the Inquisition. Born in Lisbon in 1510, she later moved onto...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557788057
• ISBN13: 9781557788054
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
• Length: 614 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"