Book: By Fire Possessed: Dona Gracia Nasi by Sandra Toro

By Fire Possessed: Doña Gracia Nasi is the story of an intelligent, wealthy and passionate Jewish woman who moved through royal courts and the elegant lives of the rich during the Renaissance. She was one of the influential women of her day and arguably the most important Jewish woman of the last 500 years. In one of the extraordinary episodes of history, Doña Gracia saved thousands of Sephardic families from the Inquisition and persecution. They were re-settled in the Ottoman Empire where they found acceptance as Jews and tolerance of their way of life. The communities populated by the people rescued by Doña Gracia extended from Salonika and Rhodes in Greece to Istanbul in Turkey and Tiberias in present day Israel.

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Gaon Books (6 Dec 2010)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 1935604171
• ISBN-13: 978-1935604174

 

Albuquerque author Sandra K. Toro has produced and hosted public affairs programs on ABC and PBS, worked for both the Carter and Clinton administrations, and headed three pharmaceutical companies.  Toro now writes fulltime and teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico. A sequel to By Fire Possessed, titled Princes, Popes and Pirates, is scheduled for publication in early 2011.

 

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