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By Alice Solovy

ISBN-10: 1479189790

ISBN-13: 9781479189793

"Beyond The odor Of Olives", a historic novel occurring among the past due 1500's and the mid-1600's begins while Jewish teen-age cousins flee the Spanish Inquisition. They paintings on a boat that's a part of the Spanish Armada, then make their manner via England, eire, and France. They construct households. whilst the Jews are expelled from Bordeaux, they stream to Amsterdam. Later, as grandfathers, the 2 cousins anticipate in their grandchildren to marry. as a substitute, the younger woman elopes to Poland with a tender guy who would not be licensed via her kin. Later the couple returns to Holland after which they visit Germany. it's a tale of relations relationships, possibilities and misadventures, set opposed to the old occasions during which they occur.

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