Elvina's mirror

By Sylvie Weil

Subjects: Persecutions, Crusades, Sex role, Jews, history, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, France, history, fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Jews, Sex role, fiction, Crusades, fiction

Description: 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.