Title: Dreaming of Safed
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.
Subjects: Jews, Juvenile fiction, History, Fiction, Inquisition, Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Sephardim, Marranos, Ethnic relations, Crypto-Jews, Jewish diaspora, Diaspora
Places: Spain, Palestine
Time periods: 16th century