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Sharon Elswit Sharon Elswit, author of The Jewish Story Finder and a school librarian for forty years in NYC, now resides in San Francisco, where she participates in the adult poetry community and shares tales aloud in a local JCC preschool. Reviews Articles Fiction The House of Love and Prayer: and Other Stories Tova Reich Nonfiction Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales Sabrina Orah Mark Poetry JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling Steve Zeitlin, ed. Fiction The Night Travelers Armando Lucas Correa Fiction Thistlefoot GennaRose Nethercott Fiction From a Distant Relation Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky; James Adam Redfield, ed. and trans. Nonfiction The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives Idit Pintel-Ginsberg Nonfiction Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews Deatra Cohen Adam Siegel Fiction Sadie’s Shabbat Stories Melissa Stoller Fiction The Lost Shtetl Max Gross Nonfiction The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folklore Archives Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg (eds.) Children’s The Sages of Chelm and the Moon Shlomo Abas (auth.), Omer Hoffmann (illus.) Children’s In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times David Stromberg, ed. Fiction A Palace of Pearls: The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav Howard Schwartz; Zann Jacobrown, illus. Children’s Uncle Yossi’s Big Book of Stories — Volume 3 Rabbi Zalman Goldstein and Rabbi Yosef Goldstein Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 2 Next page ›› Essay The Story Will Out: Why Folktales Still Matter by Sharon ElswitThroughout the ages, folklore has spoken to people. From pulpits and hearth fires and in classrooms, these stories forge a connection between the… Sharon Elswit June 6, 2013
Nonfiction The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives Idit Pintel-Ginsberg
Nonfiction Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews Deatra Cohen Adam Siegel
Nonfiction The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folklore Archives Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg (eds.)
Fiction A Palace of Pearls: The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav Howard Schwartz; Zann Jacobrown, illus.
Children’s Uncle Yossi’s Big Book of Stories — Volume 3 Rabbi Zalman Goldstein and Rabbi Yosef Goldstein
Essay The Story Will Out: Why Folktales Still Matter by Sharon ElswitThroughout the ages, folklore has spoken to people. From pulpits and hearth fires and in classrooms, these stories forge a connection between the… Sharon Elswit June 6, 2013