Rashi's Daughter

Rashi's Daughter
Title Rashi's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Maggie Anton
Publisher Jewish Publication Society
Pages 209
Release 2011-01-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0827610351

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Adapted from the author's adult novel, Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved.

Rashi's Daughters: Joheved

Rashi's Daughters: Joheved
Title Rashi's Daughters: Joheved PDF eBook
Author Maggie Anton
Publisher
Pages 388
Release 2005
Genre American fiction
ISBN

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In 1068 the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to Troyes, France to take over the family winemaking business and embark on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish world, writing the first Talmud commentary and secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters.

What's Bothering Rashi?: Bereishis

What's Bothering Rashi?: Bereishis
Title What's Bothering Rashi?: Bereishis PDF eBook
Author Avigdor Bonchek
Publisher Feldheim Publishers
Pages 150
Release 1997
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780873068499

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Our Sages Showed the Way

Our Sages Showed the Way
Title Our Sages Showed the Way PDF eBook
Author Yokheved Segel
Publisher
Pages
Release 1988
Genre Aggada
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A collection of Midrashim stories with biographies of great rabbis and teachers of the Talmud.

The Fruit of Her Hands

The Fruit of Her Hands
Title The Fruit of Her Hands PDF eBook
Author Michelle Cameron
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 450
Release 2009-09-08
Genre Fiction
ISBN 143916438X

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Based on the life of the author’s thirteenth-century ancestor, Meir ben Baruch of Rothenberg, a renowed Jewish scholar of medieval Europe, this is the richly dramatic fictional story of Rabbi Meir’s wife, Shira, a devout but rebellious woman who preserves her religious traditions as she and her family witness the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. Raised by her widowed rabbi father and a Christian nursemaid in Normandy, Shira is a free-spirited, inquisitive girl whose love of learning shocks the community. When Shira’s father is arrested by the local baron intent on enforcing the Catholic Church’s strictures against heresy, Shira fights for his release and encounters two men who will influence her life profoundly—an inspiring Catholic priest and Meir ben Baruch, a brilliant scholar. In Meir, Shira finds her soulmate. Married to Meir in Paris, Shira blossoms as a wife and mother, savoring the intellectual and social challenges that come with being the wife of a prominent scholar. After witnessing the burning of every copy of the Talmud in Paris, Shira and her family seek refuge in Germany. Yet even there they experience bloody pogroms and intensifying anti-Semitism. With no safe place for Jews in Europe, they set out for Israel only to see Meir captured and imprisoned by Rudolph I of Hapsburg. As Shira weathers heartbreak and works to find a middle ground between two warring religions, she shows her children and grandchildren how to embrace the joys of life, both secular and religious. Vividly bringing to life a period rarely covered in historical fiction, this multi-generational novel will appeal to readers who enjoy Maggie Anton’s Rashi’s Daughters, Brenda Rickman Vantrease’s The Illuminator, and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book.

The Fruit of Her Hands

The Fruit of Her Hands
Title The Fruit of Her Hands PDF eBook
Author Matthew B. Schwartz
Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Pages 208
Release 2007-05-18
Genre Religion
ISBN 0802817726

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In much of Western literature and Greek mythology, women have an evident lack of purpose; a woman needs to either enter or leave a relationship in order to find herself and her own identity. Matthew Schwartz and Kalman Kaplan set out to prove that the converse is true in the text of the Hebrew Bible. Examining the stories of women in Scripture -- Rebecca, Miriam, Gomer, Ruth and Naomi, Lot's wife, Zipporah, and dozens more -- Schwartz and Kaplan illustrate the biblical woman's strong feminine sense of being crucial to God's plan for the world and for history, courageously seeking the greatest good for herself and others whatever the circumstances. Empowering, illuminating, and fascinating, The Fruit of Her Hands makes a singular contribution to the fields of biblical and women's studies.

Torah Queeries

Torah Queeries
Title Torah Queeries PDF eBook
Author Gregg Drinkwater
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 350
Release 2012-08-22
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0814769772

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In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. Following on this ancient tradition, Torah Queeries brings together some of the world's leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah through a "bent lens." This incredibly rich collection unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures in contemporary American Judaism. All bring to the table unique methods of reading and interpreting that allow the Torah to speak to modern concerns of sexuality, identity, gender, and LGBT life. Torah Queeries offers cultural critique, social commentary, and a vision of community transformation, all done through biblical interpretation. Written to engage readers, draw them in, and at times provoke them, Torah Queeries charts a future of inclusion and social justice deeply rooted in the Jewish textual tradition. A labor of intellectual rigor, social justice, and personal passions, Torah Queeries is an exciting and important contribution to the project of democratizing Jewish communities, and an essential guide to understanding the intersection of queerness and Jewishness.