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The family treasury of Jewish holidays / by Malka Drucker ; illustrated by Nancy Patz.
LIBRA BM690 .D77 1994
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drucker, Malka.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Juvenile literature.
- Fasts and feasts.
- Fasts and feasts--Judaism.
- Judaism--Customs and practices--Juvenile literature.
- Judaism.
- Judaism--Customs and practices.
- Jewish fasts and feasts.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Juvenile works.
- Picture books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor)
- Physical Description:
- x, 180 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Jewish holidays.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown, [1994]
- Summary:
- Recounts the history and rituals of ten Jewish holidays, including appropriate games, recipes, and songs.
- Contents:
- Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur : sweet beginnings
- Sukkot : the great day
- Simhat Torah : rejoicing in the Torah
- Hanukkah : eight nights, eight lights
- Tu B'Sh'vat : the trees' birthday
- Purim : masks, melodrama, and merriment
- Pesah : a season of freedom
- Shavuot : the giving of the Torah
- Yom HaShoah : Holocaust remembrance day
- Yom Ha'atzmaut : Israeli independence day
- Shabbat : a peaceful island.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 177) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.
- ISBN:
- 0316193437
- 9780316193436
- 0316193135
- 9780316193139
- OCLC:
- 28376349
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