A collection of 45 interpretive etchings with literary and scholarly essays in Spanish and English by Antonio Muñoz Molina, author of Sepharad, winner twice of Spain’s Premio National de Literatua, and the Prix Femina; and Professor T.A. Perry, author of The Moral Proverbs of Santob de Carrión, Jewish Wisdom in Christian Spain;
Comments on Traces of Sepharad:
Marc Shanker… has turned them (proverbs) into images, into etchings that look like fairy tale illustrations at times and, at others, like scenes glimpsed in a child’s nightmare, ...
Antonio Muñoz Molina.
Marc Shanker’s haunted art conjures the spirits of Spain and Salonica, via
Brooklyn,... Peter Cole, The Dream of the Poem, Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950-1492.
… Shanker does with art what readers do through interpretation, combining memory with imagination… T. A. Perry;
Traces of Sepharad has the aura of a small ark about it, rescuing vital parts of a past, and revealing its vitality, its enduring ability to procreate and survive.
Maria Rosa Menocal, The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture.