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Children’s The Hungry Clothes and Other Jewish Folktales Retold by Peninnah Schram; Gianni DeConno, illus.
Fiction Fables from the Jewish Tradition Rabbi Manes Kogan; Sandy Berkofsky-Santana, trans.; Marcelo Ferder, illus.
Fiction Leaves From the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales Howard Schwartz; Kristina Swarner, illus.
Children’s A Never-Ending Tale: Illustrated Parables of the Ba’al Shem Tov and His Disciples Gadi Pollack; Gadi Pollack, illus;Yitzchok Kornblau, trans.
Fiction Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe Dan Ben-Amos, ed.; Dov Noy, consulting ed.; Ellen Frankel, series ed.
Children’s The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales From Around the World Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush; Uri Shulevitz, illus.
Children’s It’s Too Crowded in Here! And Other Jewish Folktales Retold by Vicki L. Weber; Hector Borlasca, illus. , 2010. 64 pp. $7.95 ISBN:
Nonfiction The Heart Is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale Tamar Alexander-Frizer; Jacqueline S. Teitelbaum, trans.
Excerpt Excerpt Friday (part A): Folktales of the Jews Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJBC is very excited about the release of the newest volume in the Folktales of the Jews series (edited with commentary by Dan Ben-Amos),… Flora Cohen May 6, 2011
