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Items with the category:

Purim

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Chil­dren’s
Kay­la and Kugel’s Play­ful Purim
Ann D. Koffsky
Essay

Laugh­ter: The Jew­ish Peo­ple’s Sur­vival Tool

Rob Kut­ner
March 10, 2025
Excerpt

Excerpt — Kapus­ta: Veg­etable-For­ward Recipes from East­ern Europe

Alis­sa Timoshkina
March 10, 2025
Excerpt

Excerpt — Chutz­pah Girls: 100 Tales of Dar­ing Jew­ish Women

Julie Sil­ver­stein, Tami Schloss­berg Pruwer
March 10, 2025
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Chil­dren’s
The Devash Megillat Esther
Shoshanna Lockshin and Efrayim Unterman; Rivka Tsinman, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
Mighty Mic­ah
Jane Yolen; Steliyana Doneva, illus.
Excerpt

Excerpt — Nosh: Plant-For­ward Recipes Cel­e­brat­ing Mod­ern Jew­ish Cuisine

Mic­ah Siva
March 18, 2024
Recommended Reading

A Bas­ket of Purim Good­ies: Sto­ries about the Hol­i­day for Young Read­ers and Families

Michal Hoschan­der Malen
March 3, 2023
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Chil­dren’s
The Purim Panic
Laura Gehl; Olga Ivanov and Aleksey Ivanov, illus.
Cover of Duct Tape Purim
Chil­dren’s
Duct Tape Purim
Jill Col­lela Bloomfield
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Chil­dren’s
Meet the Hamantaschen
Alan Sil­ber­berg
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Fic­tion
A Queen to the Res­cue: The Sto­ry of Hen­ri­et­ta Szold, Founder of Hadassah
Nancy Churnin, Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator)
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Fic­tion
The Sev­enth Handmaiden
Judith Pransky
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Chil­dren’s
Esther’s Mag­i­cal Mys­tery Torah
Rabbi Jonathan Leener, Jessica Tamar Deutsch (illus.)
Essay

Cel­e­brat­ing Purim in a Slave Society

Avi­va Ben-Ur
February 26, 2021
Excerpt

Excerpt: Esther in America

Stu­art Halpern
February 22, 2021
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