My Guardian Angel

I absolutely love the stories about Rashi and his girls. I find them both fascinating and inspiring. Rashi was one of the most famous rabbis and Jewish scholars of any age. He lived in France around the time of the first crusade. Unfortunately, Rashi never sired any sons to pass on his scholarly gif......more

Even though this book seems written for young teens or tweeners, the subject matter and the voice of the main character delighted me. You get a sense of what it was like to be a young Jewish woman in medieval France—the limitations and the possibilities, the science and the supernatural—and also, th......more

I put this on my GoodReads tbr because it highlighted a more rarely documented part of Jewish history. This young adult book takes place in France during the beginnings of the First Crusade, and it’s even written by a French author! :P Gillian Rosner translated it into English. Weil fictionalizes the......more