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The historical series of three sisters living in eleventh-century Troyes, France, continues with the tale of Miriam, the lively and daring middle child of Salomon ben Isaac, the great Talmudic authority. Having no sons, he teaches his daughters the intricacies of Mishnah and Gemara in an era when educating women in Jewish scholarship was unheard of. His middle daughter, Miriam, is determined to bring new life safely into the Troyes Jewish community...
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Rashi's daughters volume 3
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A final entry in a trilogy that began with Joheved and Miriam finds youngest daughter Rachel devastated by the massacres of Jewish Germans by First Crusaders, a situation that is further complicated by her father's stroke and her husband's desire to leave France.