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When Jessie came across the sea
Jessie lives with her grandmother in a poor village in the valleys of eastern Europe. When, to everyone's surprise, young Jessie is chosen by the village rabbi to travel to America, and to leave her grandmother behind, they both feel their hearts will break. Award-winning author Amy Hest brings her sure and inspired touch to the story of our immigrant heritage as she follows Jessie across th…
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- 0439137020
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- 40 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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- F65
Mrs. Katz and Tush
Larnel doesn't know his neighbor, Mrs. Katz, very well, until he asks her to adopt an abandoned kitten. Mrs. Katz agrees on one condition: that Larnel help her take care of the kitten she names Tush. When Larnel starts spending more and more time with Mrs. Katz to help with Tush, Mrs. Katz tells him stories about coming to America from Poland and about the good times she spent with her late hus…
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- 0440409365
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- F57
When Jessie came across the sea
Jessie lives with her grandmother in a poor village in the valleys of eastern Europe. When, to everyone's surprise, young Jessie is chosen by the village rabbi to travel to America, and to leave her grandmother behind, they both feel their hearts will break. Award-winning author Amy Hest brings her sure and inspired touch to the story of our immigrant heritage as she follows Jessie across th…
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- 0439137020
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- 40 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- F63
A picture book of Anne Frank
A thoughtful and accessible look at the life of Anne Frank, author of Diary of a Young Girl and victim of the Holocaust. Anne and her Jewish family hid in a secret apartment in Amsterdam from 1942 through 1944, when they were discovered by the Nazis. During those harrowing years, Anne kept a diary with her innermost thoughts and fears. She later died in a German concentration camp, but her voic…
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- 0439072271
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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- 920 FRA
Grandma's latkes
While Grandma teaches Molly (and the reader) how to make potato pancakes, she includes a lesson about the history of Hanukkah. "Chwast's superb, softly shaded woodcuts have a timeless quality that intensifies this story's focus on tradition".--Publishers Weekly.
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- 0152004688
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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- 394.2 DRU
Light
In the beginning there was emptiness, like a blank canvas. Then, in a swirl of motion, the Creator made the world. The Creator wanted to finish everything with a special kind of light—a light so powerful it had to be stored away from sight. When the Creator tried to open the jar of light, it shattered, and sparks of light flew everywhere. With flowing paintings and intricate collages made wit…
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- 9780525478270
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- 34 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- 398.2 ZAL
The wooden sword : a Jewish folktale from Afghanistan
Disguised in servant’s clothes, an Afghani shah slips out of his palace to learn more about his people. When he encounters a poor Jewish shoemaker full of faith that everything will turn out just as it should, the shah grows curious. Vowing that no harm will befall the poor man, he decides to test that faith, only to find that the shoemaker’s cheerful optimism cannot be shaken. But the bigg…
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- 9780807592014
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- 398 STA
Folk tales of the World : The little house
Product Name: The Little House: A Jewish Folk Tale (Folk Tales of the World)Copyright 1991, by Erica Gordon and Victor Ambrus Binding: Hardcover
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- 9780216930155
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- 26 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
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- A Jewish Folk Tale From Earstern Europe
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- 398 GOR
All-of-a-kind family Hanukkah
Acclaimed author Emily Jenkins (A Greyhound, a Groundhog) and Caldecott Award-winning artist Paul O. Zelinsky (Rapunzel) bring the beloved All-of-a-Kind Family to life in a new format. Fans, along with those just meeting the five girls ("all of a kind," as their parents say), will join them back in 1912, on the Lower East Side of NYC, and watch as preparations for Hanukkah are made. When Gertie…
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- 9780399554193
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- 40 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- J
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