of Esther's adventures prior her arrival in New France putting emphasis on her ancestors in order to finally to shed some light on her time in Quebec. The Tale-Teller takes readers through Esther's life as Jacques La Fargue and the obstacles Esther faced because of her race and gender. Susan Glickman focuses on the way Esther breaks the gender, race, and socio-economic status barriers. In Sharon E. McKay's Esther (2004), McKay sets the scene of life in 18th century Europe but specifically focuses one the lives of Jews and women. The fiction novel explains the law restrictions Jews faced and how numerous Jews were either forced to convert to Roman Catholicism or converted to escape persecution. Jewish women in Canada lived a constrained life and were expected to take on the traditional roles according to society. Esther Brandeau's story provides a different perspective apart from the societal restrictions Jews and women faced. The Tale-Teller (2012) by Susan Glickman. Performance art Heather Hermant is a poet-scholar who works with video, installation, theatre, and analyzes the crossover between land, body, and archive. Hermant created a piece known as ribcage: this wide passage, based upon the first Jew to set foot into New France. When Heather was assigned to research an ancestor for a performance class, she explored Jewish-Canadian history which led to her discovery of Esther Brandeau's story. Ribcage: this wide passage highlights Esther's experience multi-crossing from a Jewish female passing as a Christian male in the 18th century. The predominant theme of the performance is "multi-crossing" which suggests one who passes across gender, religion, geographies, some of what Esther experienced on her journey to New France. Ribcage: this wide passage not only explores history and the unknown, but also is centered around finding a place of belonging. Hermant's Brandeau inspired work would be presented at Vancouver's 2010 Tremor's Festival, Le MAI in Montreal, and later be converted into a French version as well. See also History of the Jews in Canada References External links Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Canadian people of French-Jewish descent French emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec 18th-century French Sephardi Jews Immigrants to New France Jewish Canadian history People of New France Settlers of Canada Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown