Book 2010

Elvina's Mirror

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Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Language: English
Published: 2010

Children's fiction
Jews, history, fiction
Crusades, fiction
Sex role, fiction
France, history, fiction

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.