Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France
"This carefully researched work provides a glimpse into the little-known medieval Jewish world in which Rashi lived and worked." --Naomi Ragen, Dec 2004Anton turns sketchy knowledge of Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi) and his family into an absorbing historical novel. --Jewish Times News, August 18, 2005Much like The Red Tent, it delves into rituals of women who were forgotten by history and marginalized by society. --Library Journal,  July 12, 2005Recreates a medieval French community faithful to  little-known details of Jewish ritual, including marital relations, childbirth, life-cycle events and holidays. --The Jewish Press, Jan 11, 2006Takes the torch from Anita Diamant, while using more research to explain the phenomenon that is Rashi and his daughters. --The J of Northern California, August 25, 2005The way Anton's extensive research and imagination combine to retrieve the lives of Jewish women is realistic and captivating. --Dvora Weisberg, Nov 2004 Blending passages of Talmudic argument with imagined human dramas of the medieval scholar's household, it entertains and educates. --Judith R. Baskin, Dec 2004--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.