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This picture-book "biography relates the little known story of the first female rabbi, Osnat Barzani, a Kurdish Jew whose knowledge of the Torah and leadership of a yeshiva in ancient Iraq broke gender barriers. In [a narrative] reminiscent of a fairy tale, a child named Osnat is born in 1590--'almost five hundred years ago, when almost everyone believed in miracles.' Born into a family with no sons, and surrounded by books, she convinces her father,...
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