Author Highlights the Horrors â and Hope â in the Spanish Inquisition in New Novel
Cambria Gordon (Photo by Arlo Gordon)
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In 2016, author Cambria Gordon, her husband and their youngest child left Los Angeles to take a yearlong sabbatical in Madrid. She fell in love with Spain and became fascinated with the history of the Jewish people there, traveling to the old communities where they used to live like Toledo and Segovia and going to synagogue with Ashkenazi transplants who had moved there. Though Gordon is Ashkenazi, her stepfather was Sephardic so sheâs familiar with the traditions.