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Items with the tag:

fairy tales & folk tales

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
Cover of Nicanor's Gate
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.)
Cover of How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
Fic­tion
How to Frac­ture a Fairy Tale
Jane Yolen
Cover of In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times
Chil­dren’s
In the Land of Hap­py Tears: Yid­dish Tales for Mod­ern Times
David Stromberg, ed.
Cover of A Palace of Pearls: The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
Fic­tion
A Palace of Pearls: The Sto­ries of Rab­bi Nach­man of Bratslav
Howard Schwartz; Zann Jacobrown, illus.
Essay

Love as Free­dom, Love as Sep­a­ra­tion, in Japan­ese and Jew­ish Tales

Ken­ny Fries
October 5, 2017
Cover of The Inquisitor’s Tale
Chil­dren’s
The Inquisitor’s Tale
Adam Gidwitz; Hatem Aly, illus.
Cover of Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends, and Letters
Fic­tion
Jew­ish Sto­ries of Love and Mar­riage: Folk­tales, Leg­ends, and Letters
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Peninnah Schram
Interview

Inter­view: Gavriel Savit

with Shi­ra SchindelJew­ish Book Coun­cil sat down with Gavriel Sav­it to dis­cuss his debut nov­el, Anna and the Swal­low Man, the vel­vety mind of Borges, Holo­caust fatigue,…
Shi­ra Schindel
January 21, 2016
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