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      Jephte's Daughter

      by Naomi Ragen
      Published
      Dec 1988
      Main Genre
      Historical Romance Hist. Romance
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      436
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      A modern classic of Jewish-American literature, a remarkable journey into the shrouded world of Chassidic women. Naomi Ragen's first novel has been called "one of the too most important Jewish books." Abraham Ha-Levi is a wealthy American businessman and the last male survivor of an important Orthodox Jewish family. He decides it's time he finally honored his religious and cultural inheritance and so forces his 18-year old daughter -- the beautiful and intelligent Batsheva -- into an arranged marriage. Her new husband is a devout Torah scholar who lives in Jerusalem. Batsheva finds herself plunged into a new life and a strange land, among people who follow their religious laws to the letter. Then she realizes that her husband's piety is merely a mask for his cruelty.

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      Romance

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      Historical Romance

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      Jan 1990 Warner ISBN13 9780446358620 ISBN10 0446358622
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      Jan 2002 Toby Press ISBN13 9781902881508 ISBN10 1902881508
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      Feb 2010 Griffin ISBN13 9780312570231 ISBN10 0312570236
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      First Edition Dec 1988 Warner ISBN13 9780446514866 ISBN10 0446514861
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      Feb 2010 St. Martin's ISBN13 9781429957236 ISBN10 1429957239
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      Feb 2010 St. Martin's Griffin ISBN10 B003ZDOP64
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      Jan 1989 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN13 9780816148264 ISBN10 0816148260
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