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Author Event with Maggie Anton May 6

Award-winning author Maggie Anton will be speaking and signing books at Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange.

Maggie Anton is the award-winning author of “Rashi’s Daughters,” historical novels set in the household of the great medieval Jewish scholar, whose daughters studied Talmud when these sacred texts were forbidden to women. The first book of her new series, “Rav Hisda’s Daughter: A Novel of Love, The Talmud and Sorcery’, which takes place in 3rd- century Babylonia as the Talmud is being created, was selected for 2012 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction and Library Journal’s choice for Best 2012 Historical Fiction.

Refreshments will be served.

Maggie will have books available for sale and signing!

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