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Maggie Anton
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first novel in a dramatic trilogy set in eleventh-century France about the lives and loves of three daughters of the great Talmud scholar
In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to Troyes, France, to take over the family winemaking business and embark on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish world, writing the first Talmud commentary, and secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters.
Joheved, the eldest of his...
In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to Troyes, France, to take over the family winemaking business and embark on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish world, writing the first Talmud commentary, and secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters.
Joheved, the eldest of his...
Author
Series
Rav Hisda's daughter volume 1
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xxvi, 452 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After learning the Torah by heart in third-century Babylonia, Hisdadukh cannot continue with her studies because she is female, so instead she considers practicing sorcery.
Author
Publisher
Banot Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 393 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning author of 'Rashi's Daughters,' Maggie Anton, has written a wholly transformative novel that takes characters inspired by Chaim Potok and ages them into young adults in Brooklyn in the 1950s, a time of Elvis & Marilyn, communist scares & polio vaccines, Jewish migration & American integration. When Hannah Eisin, a successful journalist, interviews Rabbi Nathan Mandel, a controversial Talmud professor, she persuades him to teach her...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxii, 425 p. : maps, geneal. table ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Rachel--the youngest and most beautiful daughter of the great Talmud scholar Rashi--who is determined to stay in France and help her family save the Troyes yeshiva, the only remnant of the great centers of Jewish learning in medieval Europe.
