Anton, Maggie. Rashi’s Daughter: Rachel: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France. Plume, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0452295681.
As the youngest and most beautiful daughter of medieval Jewish scholar “Rashi,” Rachel’s life looks to be one of peaceful scholarship, laughter, and love. But marauders of the First Crusade massacre nearly the entire Jewish population of Germany, and her beloved father suffers a stroke. Rachel is determined to stay in France and help her family save the Troyes yeshiva, the only remnant of the great centers of Jewish learning in Europe.