The secret shofar of Barcelona
By: by Jacqueline Dembar Greene ; illustrated by Doug Chayka.
Contributors: Chayka, Doug, ill.
Publisher: Kar-Ben
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822599159
Subjects: Marranos -- Spain -- Fiction; Jews -- Spain -- History -- 16th century -- Juvenile fiction; Marranos -- Fiction; Jews -- Spain -- Fiction; Concerts -- Fiction; Shofar -- Fiction; Rosh ha-Shanah -- Fiction; Spain -- History -- Philip II, 1556-1598 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: 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.