Doreen Carvajal

Doreen Carvajal's first book,The Forgetting River, is about her search to recover her Catholic family's hidden Sephardic Jewish roots in a mystical white pueblo on Spain's southern frontier in Andalusia.


Articles by Doreen Carvajal

Genetic Memory: Feeling Jewish

Earlier this summer, I mingled among a group of amateur and professional genealogists at an international Paris conference exploring the ...

Unlocking Memories

Most everyone has a family tree. But how do you turn a dry chart of birth and death dates into ...

Hunting Family Ghosts

The moment the cardboard box from New York arrived, I felt a strange mixture of elation and melancholy. The package ...