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fairy tales & folk tales

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New Kids’ Cook­book Has a Sto­ry to Tell

Post­ed by Miri Pomerantz-Dauber“A fun book for fam­i­ly shar­ing” is the descrip­tion on the back cov­er of Jew­ish Fairy Tale Feasts (Croc­o­dile Books USA, 2013), and, look­ing…
Miri Pomer­antz Dauber
March 12, 2013
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Cook­book
Jew­ish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Lit­er­ary Cookbook
Retold by Jane Yolen; Heidi E.Y. Stemple, recipes; Sima Elizabeth Shefrin, illus.
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Fic­tion
King Solomon and the Gold­en fish: Tales From the Sephardic Tradition
Matilda Koén-Sarano, ed.; Regineta Haboucha, trans. and annotator
Fic­tion
The Lost Princess and Oth­er Kab­bal­is­tic Tales of Rebbe Nach­man of Breslov
Rabbi Nachman; Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, trans.
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Chil­dren’s
The Wood­en Sword: A Jew­ish Folk­tale from Afghanistan
Ann Redisch Stampler; Carol Liddiment, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
The Pirate Princess and Oth­er Fairy Tales
Neil Philip; Mark Weber, illus.
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Fic­tion
Radi­ant Days, Haunt­ed Nights: Great Tales From the Trea­sury of Yid­dish Folk Literature
Joachim Neugroschel, ed. and trans.
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Chil­dren’s
Solomon and the Ant: And Oth­er Jew­ish Folktales
Retold by Sheldon Oberman; Peninnah Schram, intro. and commentary
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Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIn case you haven’t been fol­low­ing us on Twit­ter (or FB), we post­ed the 2012 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award guide­lines ear­li­er this week.…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
June 22, 2012
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Beau­ty and the Beast: Lev­el 3: Learn Hebrew Through Fairy Tales
David Burke; Migs Sandoval, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
Cin­derel­la: Lev­el 1: Learn Hebrew Through Fairy Tales
David Burke; Migs Sandoval, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears: Lev­el 2: Learn Hebrew Through Fairy Tales
David Burke; Migs Sandoval, illus.
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Fic­tion
Folk­tales of the Jews, Vol­ume I: Tales From the Sephardic Dispersion
Dan Ben-Amos, ed.
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Fic­tion
Kafka’s Leop­ards
Moacyr Scliar; Thomas O. Beebee, trans.
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Chil­dren’s
The Mag­ic Pome­gran­ate: A Jew­ish Folktale
Peninnah Schram; Melanie Hall, illus.
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Fic­tion
The Bride Who Argued With God: Tales From the Trea­sury of Jew­ish Folklore
Hava Ben-Zvi
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