The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales

The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales PDF Author: Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782854959
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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Book Description
This timeless collection includes eight delightful tales from Jewish tradition. Each engaging story, accompanied by Amanda Hall's vivid artwork, delivers a simple yet powerful message. Retold by Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, herself a mother of three, this set of stories is perfect for families to share.

The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales

The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales PDF Author: Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782854959
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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Book Description
This timeless collection includes eight delightful tales from Jewish tradition. Each engaging story, accompanied by Amanda Hall's vivid artwork, delivers a simple yet powerful message. Retold by Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, herself a mother of three, this set of stories is perfect for families to share.

BAREFOOT BK OF JEWISH TALES

BAREFOOT BK OF JEWISH TALES PDF Author: Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846868832
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Book Description
This engaging collection includes eight delightful tales from the Jewish tradition. Each story has been chosen for its appeal to families and each has a simple yet powerful, message.

The Girl with a Brave Heart

The Girl with a Brave Heart PDF Author: Rita Jahanforuz
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782854797
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43

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Book Description
Shiraz, a kindhearted young girl growing up in Tehran, has a miserable life at home with her stepmother and stepsister, who treat her like a servant. When the wind blows Shiraz’s ball of wool into the garden next door, she spends the day helping and caring for the old lady who lives there, with miraculous results. Then her stepmother sends her own daughter off on the same mission . . . but will the results be the same?

The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales

The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales PDF Author: Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782854982
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages :

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Book Description
Retold by Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, herself a mother of three, this set of stories is perfect for families to share. The Prince who thought he was a rooster. He spent his days sitting naked under a table in his room, refusing to eat anything except birdseed. The king and the queen were distraught. ey were beside themselves with worry and dismay. “What shall we do?” they kept asking each other.

With a Mighty Hand

With a Mighty Hand PDF Author: Amy Ehrlich
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763643955
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Book Description
A lyrical adaptation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible presents the stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses and other primary figures in a continuous narrative that upholds the complexities of the original text.

Fireside Stories

Fireside Stories PDF Author: Caitlin Matthews
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 9781846860652
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Book Description
Every time their brother turned a cartwheel, golden oranges fell from his pockets, along with sugar sweets in gold and silver paper. Schnitzle, Schnotzle & Schnootzle

One City, Two Brothers

One City, Two Brothers PDF Author: Chris Smith
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 9781846860423
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Book Description
To settle an inheritance dispute between two brothers, King Solomon tells a tale of how Jerusalem came to be founded.

My Grandmother's Stories

My Grandmother's Stories PDF Author: Adèle Geras
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375822858
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
As a young girl spends time at her grandmother's apartment, she is treated to traditional Jewish tales, including "Bavsi's Feast," "The Golden Shoes," "The Garden of Talking Flowers," and "A Phantom at the Wedding."

Dearest Anne

Dearest Anne PDF Author: Judith Katzir
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558616373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Book Description
An Israeli girl’s coming of age is told through a diary addressed to Anne Frank in this powerful novel—“a temple of love to the imaginary” (Time Out Israel). Love is both the question and the answer in this lyrical novel by one of Israel’s bestselling authors. Returning to her hometown as an adult, Rivi Shenhar discovers a collection of her old diaries—impassioned, plaintive journals she addressed to Anne Frank while growing up in Israel in the 1970s. Reading them takes her back to the isolated, lonely girl she was, living alone with a distant mother, but also to the love affair that changed her life. When her young literature teacher provides an outlet for Rivi’s frustrations, she never imagines that she will fall in love—or that such a turbulent, forbidden relationship could last so long, or become so intimate and erotically charged. Rivi’s transformation from awkward child to confident woman—and writer—is deftly handled, in “metaphoric language that is amazingly sensuous and precise” (Globes).

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present PDF Author: Dara Horn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393531570
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Book Description
Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life and Prac­tice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.