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Great Jews since Bible times : for young people / by Elma Ehrlich Levinger.
LIBRA DS115 .L5 1932
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levinger, Elma Ehrlich, 1887-1958.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Jews.
- Jews--Biography.
- Local Subjects:
- Jews--Biography.
- Jews--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Behrman House, [1932]
- Summary:
- Book of stories relating to the great names of post-Biblical Jewish history.
- Contents:
- Hillel, the poor student
- Herod, the builder of the Temple
- The wicked emperor and the good philosopher
- The pen and the sword
- The burning torch
- Akiba the peaceful soldier
- Bar Cochba, the son of a star
- The rabbi and the emperor
- The boy from Egypt
- Four rabbis who went to Spain
- The far away kingdom
- How Rashi saved his people
- Pilgrims to Palestine
- At the gates of Jerusalem
- The happy traveler
- Moses Maimonides, the good doctor
- How Nachmanides found the palace of the king
- A friend at court
- The wandering people
- How three ships left Spain
- The Jews come back to England
- The man who made spectacles
- The Turkish Messiah
- The joy of the Torah
- The boy who became the master of the name
- To seek his fortune
- The man who gave everything
- The city which was never built
- Judah Touro, the man who was everybody's friend
- In far Brazil
- The lamp beside the door
- In an English garden
- An American rabbi
- The story of a dream that came true
- The son of his people.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.
- OCLC:
- 11239811
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