Elvina's mirror
By: Sylvie Weil.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780827608856
Subjects: Rashi, -- 1040-1105 -- Fiction; Jews -- France -- History -- 11th century -- Juvenile fiction; Crusades -- First, 1096-1099 -- Juvenile fiction; Jews -- France -- History -- 11th century -- Fiction; Crusades -- First, 1096-1099 -- Fiction; Jews -- Persecutions -- Fiction; Sex role -- Fiction; Troyes (France) -- History -- 11th century -- Fiction; France -- History -- 11th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In 1097 Troyes, France, fourteen-year-old Elvina reaches out to a shunned family of German Jews, eventually drawing her grandfather, Bible and Talmud scholar Solomon ben Isaac, into helping her new friend's cousin Ephraim, whose memories of the Crusaders' cruelty have driven him mad.