historical figures

Bibliobitch: Ruth Tenzer Feldman's Blue Thread Weaves Through Time

Books post by Jyoti Roy on February 22, 2012 - 1:32pm; tagged historical figures, Jewish women, YA fiction.

Blue Thread is a YA novel set in 1912 Portland, and follows the main character—sixteen-year old Miriam Josefsohn—in her discovery of, and growing involvement in, the women’s suffrage movement. This isn't just historical fiction though—along with fighting for women’s suffrage, Miriam travels through time using a prayer shawl handed down through the women in her family that contains blue thread from Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors to encourage the Daughters of Zelophehad to petition Moses for women’s right to inherit land in the absence of a male heir. It’s in the Torah! Well, kind of.

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