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Query: rashi's daughter disappoints

Rashi's Daughter, while full of interest in regard to activities and beliefs of Jews in early medieval France, was unconvincing because it was not nuanced. ALL the villainous characters were Christians; ALL the nice characters were Jews or hoped to be converts to Judaism. Choosing to make two characters midwives is a good idea: this opens discussions of conditions for women in a natural way, and assures that some of the characters, because of their skills, circulate at many levels in the society, from low to high. I would have liked more discussion of the contradictions in Judaism between the literate, Torah reading men (that could never have been all men, though) and their illiterate women counterparts, who believed (in common with pagans) in all manner of demons--which would be at odds with the first commandment.a retired English teacher