Cover of Rashi's daughter

Book 2008

Rashi's daughter

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Publisher
The Jewish Publication Society
Language
English
Published
2008
  • Family life -- France -- Fiction
  • Education -- Fiction
  • Sex role -- Fiction

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.