Rashi's daughter

By Maggie Anton

Subjects: Education, fiction, Family life, fiction, Sex role, Customs and practices, Jews, history, fiction, Education, Fiction, Children's fiction, Judaism, France, history, fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Jews, Sex role, fiction, Family life

Description: 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.