Rashi's Daughter, Secret Scholar | 
| Author: Maggie Anton
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 233560
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 199
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0827608691
EAN: 9780827608696
ASIN: 0827608691
Publication Date: July 22, 2008
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Product Description
The tale of a young girl who challenges conventions to engage in Jewish learning PSet in 11th-century Troyes, France, Rashi's Daughter, Secret Scholar tells the story of Joheved, eldest daughter of Salomon ben Isaac (known as Rashi), one of the great medieval Jewish Bible commentators. At a time when women traditionally were barred from studying Jewish texts, Rashi secretly teaches first Joheved, then her sister Miriam. By day, Joheved helps in running the household and the family winemaking business, and by night she studies Talmud with her father. PAs she nears marriageable age, Joheved finds her mind and spirit awakened by religious study, but she must keep her passion for learning and prayer hidden. When she becomes betrothed to Meir ben Samuel, she is forced to choose between marital happiness and being true to her love of the Talmud. Will she fulfill the expected role of a Jewish woman or pursue a path of Jewish learning?
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 I bought this for my grand daughter January 2, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought Rashi's Secret Scholar for my grand daughter. Although she is an excellent reader she would prefer to do anything else but read. This book however, caught her attention and she couldn't put it down. She really enjoyed talking with me about how people lived so long ago.... Discussing the differences between today and the past.
Buying this to put in our family library December 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm buying this to put in our family library. I read the original version of this book, which was more for adults. I think when my daughter is older, it will make an excellent addition to her Judaic education.
Prequel to Joheved December 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Overall a nice read. I really liked the way this book portrayed the period that it was written in. It also has a nice feminist bent. The book shows that with determination and knowledge, a girl can make a place for herself in a man's world. Here's how the plot went: Joheved's father, the future Rashi, is a Jewish scholar, who teaches her Talmud even though girls aren't supposed to study this and her mother thinks no man will marry her if she's too educated. But she and her sister study anyway and in the end, Joheved marries one of her father's students who likes that she a learned woman. I liked her other novels, and even though this includes some stuff from Joheved, it starts earlier and is more tame than the adult version.
 rashi's daughter secret scholar December 16, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
this book is too much like anton'a first book. We already know the Yocheved was a secret scholar.
 A great book for Children...unless June 24, 2008
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
Having read the first two volumes of Rashi's Daughter's I ordered this immediately upon Amazon making it available, March 28, 2008.I didn't know it was for readers "ten and up." I assumed (always a bad idea) that it would be about the third daughter, Rachel. Silly me. It is a re-telling of the story of Jocheved for younger readers...unless they have read the first two volumes. I will give the book to a young girl, a friend's daughter. I am sure she will find it fascinating. br /My disappointment is more than likely my own fault.
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