Gafni, Lilian

Lilian Gafni was born in Cairo, Egypt and attended the all-girls, non-denominational, French Catholic School of St. Vincent de Paul. While growing up, Lilian spoke Ladino (a mixture of Castilian Spanish and Hebrew words), a language spoken by Spanish Jews after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. Gafni seeks to give voice to the thousands of victims who have been brutally silenced through the ages due to their religion and personal history. Book Secrets I am of Sephardic descent and my ancestors were Spanish Jews who left Spain during the infamous 1492 expulsion. The subject of Jews being forc...