Rashi's Daughters, Book III: Rachel by Maggie Anton
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- Pub. Date: August 2009
- 448pp
- Sales Rank: 6,836
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: August 2009
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Paperback, 448pp
- Sales Rank: 6,836
- Series: Rachi's Daughters Series
- ISBN-13: 9780452295681
- ISBN: 0452295688
Synopsis
The dramatic final book in the epic historical trilogy about the lives and loves of the three daughters of the great Talmud scholar Rashi
Rachel is the youngest and most beautiful daughter of medieval Jewish scholar Salomon ben Isaac, or "Rashi." Her father's favorite and adored by her new husband, Eliezer, Rachel's life looks to be one of peaceful scholarship, laughter, and love. But events beyond her control will soon threaten everything she holds dear. Marauders of the First Crusade massacre nearly the entire Jewish population of Germany, and her beloved father suffers a stroke. Eliezer wants their family to move to the safety of Spain, but Rachel is determined to stay in France and help her family save the Troyes yeshiva, the only remnant of the great centers of Jewish learning in Europe.
As she did so effectively in Joheved and Miriam, Maggie Anton vividly brings to life the world of eleventh-century France and a remarkable Jewish woman of dignity, passion, and strength.
Biography
MAGGIE ANTON is an award-winning writer who studies Talmud and medieval history. She is at work on the third novel in the trilogy, about the youngest daughter, Rachel.
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Rashi's Daughters - Book 3 - Rachelby Marvin-K
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September 12, 2009: Maggie Anton gets into the history of this part of Western Europe during the last of the 11th century and the early part of the 12th. She describes,in detail, the hardships inflicted by the first Crusade on the Jewish communities in Southern Germany, and the utter destruction of the major centers of Talmudic study there. We also learn about the travels of Jewish merchants to Eastern Europe, the Levant, Spain, and North Africa.
We learn a little bit about how the Jewish beliefs and practices differed among these areas. We learn more about the management of vineyards by Jews, and a lot about the Jewish merchants who dealt in woolens. This book was very interesting to me because of the variety of subjects that Anton chose for us learn.disappointedby neccy
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September 01, 2009: this is the first time i have reviewed a book...i have enjoyed maggie antons two previous books...i was looking forward to her third book of the series..while her first two books had wonderful story lines,this books storyline is too involved with the torah and the teachings of the jewish faith...the characters are confusing and it doesn't have the warmth that the past two books had..if i had read this book first,i would never had read the others.. while i am of the jewish faith and enjoy historical fiction...this book was not one that i would recommend..
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