Date
Event Time
12:00 PM
Cost
FREE
Location
ONLINE
Event Details
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
12:00pm - 12:45pm PT
Two Egyptian midwives join the Exodus in Maggie Anton’s bold new novel. Join her and Rabbi Fenton for a journey through history and Torah.
Join award-winning author Maggie Anton in conversation with AJU’s Rabbi Patricia Fenton for a captivating discussion about The Midwives’ Escape: From Egypt to Jericho, a bold new historical novel that breathes life into the biblical Exodus. Grounded in years of archaeological research and biblical scholarship, Anton’s latest work follows Asenet and Shifra—an Egyptian midwife and her apprentice—whose lives are upended by the tenth plague. As they flee Egypt with their family and a growing group of fellow travelers, they embark on a harrowing journey filled with love, loss, and resilience. Asenet and Shifra’s journey alongside the Israelites from slavery to Sinai to the edge of the Promised Land is both a gripping adventure and a profound tale of spiritual transformation. Buy the book here.
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Can’t make it live? Register anyway! All participants will receive the recording to free webinars. But join us in real time to engage with the speaker, ask questions, and be part of the conversation!
Maggie Anton is an award-winning author of historical fiction, as well as a Talmud scholar with expertise in Jewish women’s history. She wrote the award-winning trilogy Rashi’s Daughters in 2004, to be followed by National Jewish Book Award finalist, Rav Hisda’s Daughter: Apprentice and its sequel, Enchantress. Her latest historical novel is The Midwives’ Escape: from Egypt to Jericho, which describes the Exodus from the point of view of an Egyptian mother and daughter who join the Hebrews to follow Moses to the Promised Land.
In addition to teaching with the Miller Introduction to Judaism Program, which she truly loves, Rabbi Patricia Fenton is a lecturer with the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and the Masor School for Jewish Education and Leadership. She is also the Director of the Libraries and Director of the Beit Midrash.