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    Items with the tag:

    fairy tales & folk tales

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    Chil­dren’s
    The Magi­cian’s Visit
    Barbara Diamond Goldin, adapted from a story by I. L. Peretz, Eva Sánchez Gómez(illus.)
    Interview

    The Infi­nite Opti­mist: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Yaniv Iczkovits

    Bram Press­er
    March 17, 2021
    Cover of Lenny and Benny
    Chil­dren’s
    Lenny and Benny
    Naa­ma Benziman
    Cover of Benjy’s Blanket
    Chil­dren’s
    Benjy’s Blan­ket
    Miguel Gouveia, Raquel Catalina (illus.)
    Cover of The Challah Girl
    Chil­dren’s
    The Chal­lah Girl
    Bracha K. Sharp, Anita Tung (illus.)
    Cover of Bubbe and Zaide
    Chil­dren’s
    Bubbe and Zaide
    Anne-Marie Asner
    Cover of Jewish Cultural Studies
    Non­fic­tion
    Jew­ish Cul­tur­al Studies
    Simon J. Bronner
    Cover of A Crowded Farmhouse Folktale
    Chil­dren’s
    A Crowd­ed Farm­house Folktale
    Karen Rostoker-Gruber, Kristina Swarner (illus.)
    Essay

    The Jew­ish Roots of Won­der Woman’s Pop Feminism

    Lori Har­ri­son-Kahan
    December 21, 2020
    Fiction—From the Journal

    The Lit­tle Bottles

    Weaver
    December 14, 2020
    Cover of The Eight Knights of Hanukkah
    Chil­dren’s
    The Eight Knights of Hanukkah
    Leslie Kimmelman, Galia Bernstein (illus.)
    Cover of Anya and the Nightingale
    Fic­tion
    Anya and the Nightingale
    Sofiya Paster­nack
    Essay

    Jews and Fan­ta­sy, or Tom Bom­badil is my Rebbe

    Gavriel Sav­it
    November 24, 2020
    Cover of Such a Library: A Yiddish Folktale Re-Imagined
    Chil­dren’s
    Such a Library: A Yid­dish Folk­tale Re-Imagined
    Jill Ross Nadler
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    Chil­dren’s
    Nicanor’s Gate
    Eric A. Kimmel, Alida Massari (illus.)
    Cover of The Power of a Tale:  Stories from the Israel Folklore Archives
    Non­fic­tion
    The Pow­er of a Tale: Sto­ries from the Israel Folk­lore Archives
    Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg (eds.)
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