Author: Maggie Anton Publisher: ISBN: Category : American fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
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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.
Author: Maggie Anton Publisher: ISBN: 9781429541855 Category : Fathers and daughters Languages : en Pages : 359
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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.
Author: Maggie Anton Publisher: ISBN: 9781101132494 Category : Fathers and daughters Languages : en Pages : 425
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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.
Author: Maggie Anton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fathers and daughters Languages : en Pages : 0
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Book 3: 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.
Author: Maggie Anton Publisher: Rashi's Daughters ISBN: 9780452295681 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 425
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Following "Joheved" and "Miriam, Rachel," the dramatic final book in this epic historical trilogy chronicles the lives and times of the three daughters of the great Talmud scholar Rashi.
Author: Maggie Anton Publisher: ISBN: 9781429543156 Category : Fathers and daughters Languages : en Pages : 475
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Dedicated to her career as a midwife in the eleventh-century Troyes, France, Jewish community, Miriam finds herself sorely tested and forced to rely on her faith to pursue her chosen path.
Author: Michelle Cameron Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 143916438X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 450
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Based on the life of the author’s thirteenth-century ancestor, Meir ben Baruch of Rothenberg, a renowed Jewish scholar of medieval Europe, this is the richly dramatic fictional story of Rabbi Meir’s wife, Shira, a devout but rebellious woman who preserves her religious traditions as she and her family witness the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. Raised by her widowed rabbi father and a Christian nursemaid in Normandy, Shira is a free-spirited, inquisitive girl whose love of learning shocks the community. When Shira’s father is arrested by the local baron intent on enforcing the Catholic Church’s strictures against heresy, Shira fights for his release and encounters two men who will influence her life profoundly—an inspiring Catholic priest and Meir ben Baruch, a brilliant scholar. In Meir, Shira finds her soulmate. Married to Meir in Paris, Shira blossoms as a wife and mother, savoring the intellectual and social challenges that come with being the wife of a prominent scholar. After witnessing the burning of every copy of the Talmud in Paris, Shira and her family seek refuge in Germany. Yet even there they experience bloody pogroms and intensifying anti-Semitism. With no safe place for Jews in Europe, they set out for Israel only to see Meir captured and imprisoned by Rudolph I of Hapsburg. As Shira weathers heartbreak and works to find a middle ground between two warring religions, she shows her children and grandchildren how to embrace the joys of life, both secular and religious. Vividly bringing to life a period rarely covered in historical fiction, this multi-generational novel will appeal to readers who enjoy Maggie Anton’s Rashi’s Daughters, Brenda Rickman Vantrease’s The Illuminator, and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book.
Author: Matthew B. Schwartz Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 0802817726 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 208
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In much of Western literature and Greek mythology, women have an evident lack of purpose; a woman needs to either enter or leave a relationship in order to find herself and her own identity. Matthew Schwartz and Kalman Kaplan set out to prove that the converse is true in the text of the Hebrew Bible. Examining the stories of women in Scripture -- Rebecca, Miriam, Gomer, Ruth and Naomi, Lot's wife, Zipporah, and dozens more -- Schwartz and Kaplan illustrate the biblical woman's strong feminine sense of being crucial to God's plan for the world and for history, courageously seeking the greatest good for herself and others whatever the circumstances. Empowering, illuminating, and fascinating, The Fruit of Her Hands makes a singular contribution to the fields of biblical and women's studies.
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