Author Events and Book Groups
Jewish Book Club
Spertus invites you to participate in the Jewish Book Club. Each discussion focuses on a provocative book — led by an expert in the book's subject. Books at be purchased from the Spertus Shop or can be borrowed from the reserve section of the Asher Library.
Rashi's Daughters
Book 1: Joheved
By Maggie Anton
Tuesday, May 13 from 12 noon - 1:30 pm
Tickets are $25 | $20 for Spertus members, and include a kosher lunch. To guarantee a lunch, please reserve by May 7.
For reservations call 312.322.1773.
In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac — better known as Rashi — returned home to the family winemaking business. He embarked on a path that indelibly influenced the Jewish world, writing the first Talmud commentary and secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters.
In the first book of Maggie Anton’s dramatic — and romantic — trilogy, Joheved finds her spirit awakened by religious study, but has to keep her passion hidden. Must she choose between marital happiness and her study of Talmud?
Rabbi Asher Lopatin of Lakeview's Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel Congregation leads the discussion.