Rashi's daughter
Subtitle: secret scholar
By: Maggie Anton.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780827608696
Subjects: Rashi, -- 1040-1105 -- Fiction; Jews -- France -- History -- 11th century -- Juvenile fiction; Jews -- France -- History -- 11th century -- Fiction; Judaism -- Customs and practices -- Fiction; Family life -- France -- Fiction; Education -- Fiction; Sex role -- Fiction; Troyes (France) -- History -- 11th century -- Fiction; France -- History -- Medieval period, 987-1515 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In eleventh-century Troyes, France, Joheved, the eldest daughter of a respected teacher and Bible commentator, studies Talmud after her days of helping run a household and the family winemaking business, but worries that her future husband will agree with those who believe women should not be scholars.
Notes: Adapted from the author's adult novel, Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved.