Rashi's Daughters Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France, (Paperback)

from nyj12

This bok gives you a good idea of what life in medieval France was like for a Jewish woman. Her father, Rashi, has been documented very well from a historical perspective as his commentary on Torah and Talmud are widely published. In this book the author tries to give the view of what it was like...

from fglass

A picture of Talmud study in the middle ages under Rashi. A beautiful detailed picture of the lives that circled around Rashi - the great Talmud scholar.

from maggieanton

Rashi, living in Troyes, France, in the latter half of the 11th century, was one of Judaism's greatest scholars. Troyes at the time had a vibrant Jewish community, full of scholars, but also traders, vintners, and estate owners. Anton's books (the first focused on the elder daughter, Joheved) imm...

from JanicsEblen

This series continues to be a well written and great to read group. I have learned so much about life in general and Jewish life in particular in the 11th Century with the reading of the Rashi's Daughters series.

from debs4jc

Part of a series, though I hadn't read the first book and followed it well enough. This book focused on Miriam, the 2nd of Rabbi Rashi's daughters, who loses her first love to an accident and then faces the difficult question of if and who she will marry. As a woman educated in the Torah she is u...