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Helen Watt

This character is a British professor of Jewish Studies who is about to retire.

Aaron Levy

This character is a graduate student, America Jew, and a student of Jewish History. He is asked to assist an aging professor to examine some seventeenth-century documents her former student finds.

Ester Velasquez (Aleph)

This character is a Portuguese Jew and an orphan. She becomes a scribe for the rabbi who takes her and her brother from Amsterdam to London.

Rabbi Moseh HaCoen Mendes

This character is an elderly Sepharidic Jew who was blinded when he was a young man during the Portuguese Inquisition.

Marisa

This character is an American Jew and university student, whose grandparents survived the Holocaust. After she moves to Israel, she discovers she is pregnant.

Dror

This character is a soldier in the Israeli army and a Polish Jew. His mother and sister were killed during the...

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