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Jephte's daughter

The pampered daughter of a wealthy Hasidic businessman, Batsheva Ha-Levi grows up in the affluent suburbs of Los Angeles. But everything changes when she turns eighteen and finds that her loving father has made a secret vow which will shatter her life, forcing her to marry a man she hardly knows and sending her to the exotic, golden city of Jerusalem. On her wedding day, she enters a strange and foreign world steeped in tradition and surrounded by myth. Shackled by ancient rules, she soon understands that to survive she will have no choice but to fight for her freedom, to reconcile her own need to live in the modern world with her ancestral obligations, and to choosebetween the three men who vie for her body, her soul, and her love. Now a classic listed among the one hundred most important Jewish books of all time*, Jephte's Daughter is bestselling author Naomi Ragen's beloved first novel. With poignancy and insight, it takes readers on a groundbreaking and unforgettable journeyinside the hiddenworld of women in theultra-Orthodox Jewish community. *100 Essential Books For Jewish Readers, Rabbi Daniel B. Sync and Lindy Frenkel Kanter.

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  • "After agreeing to an arranged marriage to a man in Israel, Batsheva Ha-Levi discovers this change in her life will force her into a personal struggle to reconcile the demands of her faith with the need to live in the modern world."
  • "The pampered daughter of a wealthy Hasidic businessman, Batsheva Ha-Levi grows up in the affluent suburbs of Los Angeles. But everything changes when she turns eighteen and finds that her loving father has made a secret vow which will shatter her life, forcing her to marry a man she hardly knows and sending her to the exotic, golden city of Jerusalem. On her wedding day, she enters a strange and foreign world steeped in tradition and surrounded by myth. Shackled by ancient rules, she soon understands that to survive she will have no choice but to fight for her freedom, to reconcile her own need to live in the modern world with her ancestral obligations, and to choosebetween the three men who vie for her body, her soul, and her love. Now a classic listed among the one hundred most important Jewish books of all time*, Jephte's Daughter is bestselling author Naomi Ragen's beloved first novel. With poignancy and insight, it takes readers on a groundbreaking and unforgettable journeyinside the hiddenworld of women in theultra-Orthodox Jewish community. *100 Essential Books For Jewish Readers, Rabbi Daniel B. Sync and Lindy Frenkel Kanter."@en
  • "Beautiful Batsheva, pampered daughter of an American Jew, must fulfill her father's promise and become the bride of a Hassidic scholar in a traditional, arranged marriage in Jerusalem. She soon desperately longs for her freedom."
  • "Als een Amerikaans orthodox-joods meisje trouwt met de door haar invloedrijke vader uitgezochte bruidegom, wacht haar een moeilijk leven in Jeruzalem."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Jewish fiction"
  • "Translations"@he

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  • "Una moglie a Gerusalemme"@it
  • "Una moglie a Gerusalemme"
  • "Jeftan tytär"@fi
  • "Bat yiftaḥ"
  • "Bat Yiftaḥ"
  • "בת יפתח"
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  • "Jephte's daughter"
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