Do�a Gracia of the House of Nasi

Dona Gracia, a Marrano or 'converso' (secret Jew), flees the Inquisition in Portugal. She wanders Europe, rises to financial power in Antwerp, finds sanctuary, finally, in Turkey, where she spends her last years as the uncrowned Queen of Jewry in the Ottoman Empire.

• | Author: Cecil Roth
• | Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society
• | Publication Date: February 16, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0827604114
• | ISBN-13: 9780827604117