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By Light of Hidden Candles Is Launching Today!

October 16, 2017 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

…and I couldn’t pull it together enough to write my newsletter announcement. So I made Manuel do it. Dear Daniella’s Subscribers, I hope this newsletter finds you well. Daniella has asked me to write it on her behalf, because she, I quote, “can’t handle it aaahhhhhhhhhhhh”. She’s always making me do annoying things. As you […]

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The Jewish Quarter of Lorca, Spain

October 15, 2017 by Daniella Levy 1 Comment

In  my previous post, I described how I discovered the ancient Jewish quarter of Lorca, Spain, and chose it as the setting for the historical story of By Light of Hidden Candles. Lorca is a city in Murcia, the region in eastern Spain tucked between Andalusia and Valencia. Its most famous feature is its hilltop […]

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Why I Set the Historical Narrative in Lorca

October 13, 2017 by Daniella Levy 1 Comment

The historical narrative of By Light of Hidden Candles is set in a city called Lorca in the region of Murcia. You might never have heard of Lorca; neither had I! It was never even mentioned in first Spanish Jewish history book I consulted in attempt to choose a good location for the historical story. […]

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Title Woes: The Harrowing and Hilarious Tale of the Quest for a Title

September 27, 2017 by Daniella Levy 1 Comment

One of the hardest things about writing By Light of Hidden Candles was finding a title. And therein hangs a tale…

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Disengagement

Disengagement

In other times, they would never have met. They come from different corners of Israeli society, rooted in their own beliefs, busy with their own troubles. Farmers and fishermen, skeptics and believers, immigrants and natives, children and grandparents struggle with faith, loss, jealousy, hope—and the turmoil around them only deepens the rifts that divide them. […]

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