Presents
Tycher Library Book Club
Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family
by Laura Arnold Leibman
Monday, February 7
10 AM Virtual
Reed College English professor Leibman (Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism) uncovers the lost history of a prominent New York City Jewish family. Though heiress Blanche Moses (1859–1946) obsessively collected family records, she “drew an uncharacteristic blank” when it came to the maternal line of her grandmother, Sarah Brandon Moses (1798–1829), and great-uncle, Isaac Lopez Brandon (1793–1855), whose father was the “wealthiest Jew” on the island of Barbados.