The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot

About the Book

These thrilling and harrowing first-hand stories of fellow-survivors and their Spanish rescuers vividly reveal the unknown history of the Jews who found asylum from Hitler's Final Solution under Franco's Fascist regime.

Originally published in hard cover by Simon and Schuster and by Harper/San Francisco in paperback, it was acclaimed as one of The Progressive's "BEST READING OF 1993" and won an award from the Jewish Book Council in the category of Memoir and Biography. It is the first volume of Alexy's HIDDEN IDENTITIES TRILOGY, followed in 2003 by THE MARRANO LEGACY, and in 2005 by IN SEARCH OF FORGIVENESS, recounting her own search for her lost Jewish heritage.

About the Author

Trudi Alexy and her family fled Prague for Paris and Barcelona at the outbreak of World War II. Hastily baptized, they hid in Spain as secret Jews for two years until they emigrated to the United States. Today, Alexy lectures widely as a much requested member of the United Jewish Communities Speakers Bureau and lives in Los Angeles, California.