On Sunday July 22, at 10:30 am, author and journalist Libi Astaire will be giving a talk, as well as reading from her contemporary novel Terra Incognita, at the Netanya AACI, 28 Shmuel Hanaziv Street, on the topic:

Mystics and Mazes: The Girona Call Recalled

Before the Expulsion from Spain, Girona was a “Mother City in Israel” – a home to Torah luminaries such as the Ramban and Rabbeinu Yonah, as well as prosperous merchants and artisans. After being “lost” for almost 500 years, Girona’s Call Jueu was dramatically rediscovered in the 1970s and today it is Spain’s best preserved Jewish Quarter. Join novelist Libi Astaire for a virtual tour of the Call’s fascinating past and present, which will be given on the 749th anniversary of the Ramban’s Disputation in nearby Barcelona.

Libi Astaire is the author of Terra Incognita, a novel about contemporary Anusim in Spain, and the Ezra Melamed Mystery Series, a Jewish historical mystery series set in Regency England. Her feature articles about Jewish history appear regularly in the international Jewish weekly Mishpacha Magazine.