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Book Circle with Guest Speaker Maggie Anton

Saturday, June 25, 2022 26 Sivan 5782

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
 
 
Join Kol Ami's book club, hosted by David Glickman and Dr. Jane Drucker. We'll discuss “The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith, and the Talmud” by Maggie Anton, Award winning author of “Rashi’s Daughters”.  Ms. Anton will join us for the discussion!
 
Maggie Anton is an award-winning author of historical fiction, as well as a Talmud scholar with expertise in Jewish women’s history. She was born Margaret Antonofsky in Los Angeles, California, where she still resides. In 1992 she joined a women’s Talmud class taught by Rachel Adler. There, to her surprise, she fell in love with Talmud, a passion that has continued unabated for thirty years. Intrigued that the great Jewish scholar Rashi had no sons, only daughters, she started researching the family and their community. Thus the award-winning trilogy, Rashi’s Daughters, was born, to be followed by National Jewish Book Award finalist, Rav Hisda’s Daughter: Apprentice and its sequel, Enchantress. Then she switched to nonfiction, winning the Gold Ben Franklin Award in the religion category for Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say about You-Know Whathttps://fiftyshadesoftalmud.com/, a lighthearted in-depth tour of sexuality within the Talmud.
 
Her latest work is The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith and the Talmud, a wholly transformative novel that takes characters inspired by Chaim Potok and ages them into young adults in 1950s Brooklyn. Since 2005, Anton has lectured about the research behind her books at hundreds of venues throughout North America, Europe and Israel. She still studies women and Talmud, albeit mostly online. Her favorite Talmud learning sites are Daf Shevui and Mishna Yomit, provided daily via email by the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem at https://www.conservativeyeshiva.org/learn/.
 
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