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12:30 PM – JCC-U Lunch and Learn:

Eric Weintraub – South of Sefarad: The 1492 Jewish Expulsion from Spain

This debut novel tells the tale of a Spanish Jewish Family who went into exile after being expelled from Spain in 1492, leaving behind their converso daughter to the perils of the Inquisition.

Vidal, a physician, and his fam­i­ly join a car­a­van of 200 Jews jour­ney­ing to start their lives anew across the sea in Fez. On the car­a­van, Vidal strug­gles to bal­ance his physi­cian duties of car­ing for the sick while strug­gling to mend strained rela­tion­ships with his family.

Eric Z. Wein­traub is the author of the nov­el South of Sepharad and the novel­la Dreams of an Amer­i­can Exile. He holds an MFA in Cre­ative Writ­ing from Mount St. Mary’s Uni­ver­si­ty. Born and raised in Los Ange­les, Cal­i­for­nia, he pro­files com­plex med­ical cas­es at the Keck School of Med­i­cine of USC.