Dreaming of Safed
By: Angelina Muøiz-Huberman ; translated by Seymour Menton
Contributors: Menton, Seymour, translator
Publisher: Gaon Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Santa Fe, NM
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781935604617; 9781935604624
Subjects: Jews; Juvenile fiction; History; Fiction; Inquisition; Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Description: Rafael, a young Jewish boy living in Spain during the Inquisition, wants to have a Bar Mitzvah and when his father opposes it, Rafael leaves, meets and falls in love with Miriam, and journeys with her toward Safed, Israel, the spiritual home of mystical Jews.
Notes: An adaptation for young readers of the novel A Mystical Journey, originally published in Spanish under the title Tierra adentro.