Across So Many Seas, with Ruth Behar

The Book of Life: A Podcast About Jewish Kidlit (Mostly)

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Lucky Broken Girl, Letters from Cuba, Tia Fortuna's New Home, and now, Across So Many Seas. Award winning author Ruth Behar keeps finding new ways to share her Sephardic and Ashkenazi Cuban Jewish heritage with us, and it's fresh and fascinating every time. In her latest sweeping middle grade novel, Across So Many Seas, she introduces us to four generations of a Sephardic family, from the Spanish Inquisition to modern times. Like the Ladino song woven into the story of each of the 12 year old protagonists, this book is a poignant and powerful ode to sorrow and connection and joy. LEARN MORE:

• Transcript of interview
• Ruth Behar's website
• Playlist of music from Across So Many Seas
• Educator's Guide to Across So Many Seas
• Buy Across So Many Seas
• Ruth's tikkun olam suggestion: The American Ladino League
• Ruth's Sephardic reading recommendations: * board book Mazal Bueno by past podcast guest Sarah Aroeste * graphic novel We Are Not Strangers by Josh Tuininga * novel Kantika by Elizabeth Graver * nonfiction One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank
• Ruth's documentary film Adio Kerida - rent for $3.99 on Vimeo

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