Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France

The first two novels in a dramatic trilogy set in eleventh-century France about the lives and loves of three daughters of the great Talmud scholar 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. Joheved, the eldest of his three girls, finds her mind and spirit awakened by religious study, but, knowing the risk, 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. Rich in period detail and drama, Johevedis a must read for fans of Tracy Chevalier’s Girl With a Pearl Earring.

Maggie Anton won three awards at BEA including the PMA Ben Franklin Award for Best New Voice Fiction, Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award for historical fiction, and an Independent Publisher Book Award for historical fiction.