The True Chronicles of Ben-Zion Palachi, the Rabbi Pirate

Conceived with Lila Rachel Becker

The year is 1500. The Catholic conquest of the Iberian peninsula is almost complete. The Inquisition touches every corner of newly unified Spain. The Ottoman Empire is battling for global power. And Captain Ben-Zion Palachi, the Rabbi Pirate, has gathered an intrepid crew of Jews, Muslims, and New Christians to find a legendary treasure of the British Empire:...
Conceived with Lila Rachel Becker

The year is 1500. The Catholic conquest of the Iberian peninsula is almost complete. The Inquisition touches every corner of newly unified Spain. The Ottoman Empire is battling for global power. And Captain Ben-Zion Palachi, the Rabbi Pirate, has gathered an intrepid crew of Jews, Muslims, and New Christians to find a legendary treasure of the British Empire: the Golden Chessboard. Amidst these adventures, a stowaway named Chana makes a bid for the kind of power she cannot find on land. A swashbuckling play with music set against a rapidly shifting world haunted by the ghosts of the past, The True Chronicles of Ben–Zion Palachi resurrects the historical phenomena of Jewish pirates to explore the stories we never hear.
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The True Chronicles of Ben-Zion Palachi, the Rabbi Pirate

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  • Ian Thal:
    17 Mar. 2023
    A fascinatingly constructed adventure told through nested stories. Set against the refugee crisis created by forced conversions, the Spanish Inquisition, and the Spanish Expulsion of 1492, Ben-Zion Palachi has become a pirate captain, the only profession that allows him to remain the protagonist in his own story. But just as conversions, displacement, and secrets place identities into a state of flux, his story is in as much flux as his crew's fortunes.

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