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"ANOTHER WINNER!"
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Running from her past, she finds a killer, a protector, and her faith.

WHAT WAS FORBIDDEN
By: Jonathan Bockian

A Venice Ghetto Mystery

Independently Published
October 2025
On Sale: October 20, 2025
ISBN: 8218667938
EAN: 9798218667931
Kindle: B0FB468D4D
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Mystery Historical

The Ghetto of Venice, 1672. A brother murdered. A truth buried. When faith, freedom and obedience collide, one woman risks everything to remain true to herself and to the brother she loved.

 

When Yehudit's beloved brother Mordechai is found murdered, her search to know what happened upends her world. In life, Mordechai—disaffected merchant, outspoken skeptic—secretly defied expectations his family, religion, and the Ghetto community placed on one of their own, and limits imposed by gentile Venice. As Yehudit exposes conflicts that shaped Mordechai's final weeks, she increasingly must challenge restrictions and controls on her life as a woman. Yehudit's determination to find and speak the truth set her on a collision course with her family and the entrenched Ghetto power structure.

 

Inspired by a true event memorialized in the Venice Ghetto, WHAT WAS FORBIDDEN is set within the backdrop of two historical movements each of which ignited hopes of freedom but in diametrically opposite ways.

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