This is a really welcome publication that fills a big pedagogical gap—while there are certainly many other books out there on the history of Jewish women in the Middle Ages, they tend to assume the reader already has a basic knowledge of Jewish history, belief and practice. In the undergraduate classroom, this is not the case! I can already see how Sarah Ifft Decker's brief synthesis will fit nicely into future courses that I teach. It's clearly and accessibly written, with a useful glossary of terms and a selection of relevant sources in translation in the appendix. ( )