Hope of Israel
Excerpt from Hope of Israel by Patricia O'Sullivan
29/02/08 14:10
When survival requires deception and piety demands
conformity--Based on the true story of the
readmission of the Jews to England in 1656, Hope of
Israel is the story of Domingo de La Cerda, who grows
up in London among a small community of Jews who must
pretend to be Catholic to survive. However, in
seventeenth-century England, both Catholics and Jews
are despised for their religion. Domingo must
negotiate a world of both religious persecution and
religious deception while coming to terms with his
own conflicted identity.
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