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Sharon Elswit

Sharon Elswit, author of The Jew­ish Sto­ry Find­er, now resides in San Fran­cis­co, where she has been help­ing stu­dents vis­it­ing 826 Valen­cia loca­tions around the city to write sto­ries and poems and get­ting adults up and retelling Jew­ish folk­tales to share with their own spin. 

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Joachim Neugroschel, ed. and trans.
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Retold by Sheldon Oberman; Peninnah Schram, intro. and commentary
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Anita Ganeri, Rachel Phillips, Illustrator
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Mitchell Chefitz
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Barbara Diamond Goldin
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Seymour Rossel; Janet Zwebner, illus.
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Judith Goldhaber; Gerson Goldhaber, illus.
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Chris Smith; Aurélia Fronty, illus.
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Hava Ben-Zvi
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Howard Schwartz; Kristina Swarner, illus.
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Sarah Marwil Lamstein; Neil Waldman, illus.
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Eric A. Kimmel; Martina Peluso, illus.
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A Heart Afire: Sto­ries and Teach­ing of the Ear­ly Hasidic Masters
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Netanel Miles- Yepez; Arthur Green, fwd.

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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

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