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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 shares tales aloud in a local JCC preschool and vol­un­teers with 826 Valen­cia to help stu­dents write their own sto­ries and poems.

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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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