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About the BookAmericans have become obsessed with their past: where do we come from? Who were our ancestors? What kind of people were they? These are some of the questions that haunted Moshe Shaltiel, especially since it had been claimed that his family is descended from King David, the leader of the Jewish people, nearly 3000 years ago. He knew for a fact that the Shaltiels had been driven from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella in the late 15th century. Shaltiel abandoned a lucrative career as an investment banker and set out on a journey of thousands of miles spanning more than twenty years. On his way he visits innumerable ancient graves, libraries, temples, family houses in the Levant, Babylon, Greece, the Netherlands, Israel, the U.S. and elsewhere to find the missing threads of his incredibly long family lineage. He finds ancestors almost everywhere around the globe: from ancient exilarchs (Babylonian rulers) to cousins of Charlemagne to Annie Oakley's husband, to numerous Holocaust survivors, to a contemporary Israeli general to a deputy mayor of Chicago, to name just a few. All these disparate strains are woven together into a single tapestry that is at once vast, colorful and historic. About the AuthorMoshe Shaltiel-Gracian was born in Israel. Over the past twenty years he has investigated archives, manuscripts, book and academic papers in Greece, Israel, Spain, Turkey, the United States and elsewhere, to trace the history of his family. He is the editor of The Shaltiel Manuscripts and the author of Exilarch, a novel. |
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