Northwest Hadassah An Evening with Author Maggie Anton
December 21, 2022 @ 7:00PM — 8:30PM Central Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
RESCHEDULED DATE - Please join us as we welcome Maggie Anton, award-winning author of historical fiction, as well as a Talmud scholar with expertise in Jewish women’s history
Maggie will speak about her her latest work, The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith and the Talmud, a transformative novel that takes characters inspired by Chaim Potok and ages them into young adults in 1950's Brooklyn. Since 2005, Anton has lectured about the research behind her books at hundreds of venues throughout North America, Europe, and Israel. She continues to study women in the Talmud, albeit mostly online. If you would like to learn more about Maggie's book, please go to https://bit.ly/3xt1FE7
Maggie Anton was born Margaret Antonofsky in Los Angeles, California, where she still resides. In 1992 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, but only daughters, Maggie started researching the family and their community. Thus the award-winning trilogy, Rashi’s Daughters, 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-What.