For my book report, I chose the book Out of Many Waters by Jacqueline Green. The book was about a girl named Isobel who was enslaved by monks as part of the Inquisition. She escaped by boarding a ship headed to Amsterdam, but on the way the ship was caught by a Spanish caravel and the Jews on board were taken to Cuba. Fortunately, a French ship came a long and brought them to the American colony of New Amsterdam.
This book taught me many things about the Jews of the time. An interesting fact that I did not know was that during the Inquisition, children were taken Jewish families and brought to live as slaves in monasteries.…
