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The secret shofar of Barcelona / Jacqueline Dembar Greene ; illustrated by Doug Chayka.

Title
The secret shofar of Barcelona / Jacqueline Dembar Greene ; illustrated by Doug Chayka.
Author
Greene, Jacqueline Dembar
Publication
Minneapolis : Kar-Ben, c2009.

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Additional Authors
Chayka, Doug
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill.; 28 cm.
Summary
In the late 1500s, while the conductor of the Royal Orchestra of Barcelona prepares for a concert to celebrate Spain's colonies in the New World, his son secretly practices playing the Shofar to help Jews, who must hide their faith from the Inquisition, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah. Includes historical facts and glossary.
Subject
  • 1500-1599
  • Crypto-Jews > Spain > Juvenile fiction
  • Jews > Spain > History > 16th century > Juvenile fiction
  • Shofar > Juvenile fiction
  • Rosh ha-Shanah > Juvenile fiction
  • Spain > History > Philip II, 1556-1598 > Juvenile fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Juvenile works
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780822599159 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
  • 0822599155 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008031197
OCLC
  • 244339560
  • SCSB-11649436
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library