Bar­bara is the author of The Book of Jew­ish Wom­en’s Tales as well as twelve oth­er books on Jew­ish art, his­to­ry, and folk­lore. As a sto­ry­teller she was sent by the U.S. gov­ern­ment to teach folk­lore and sto­ry­telling abroad; and under the aus­pices of the munic­i­pal­i­ty of Tel Aviv, she helped to devel­op the first course for pro­fes­sion­al tellers in Israel.