Sarah believes her 12th birthday to be the happiest day of her life in Kishinev, Russia, but it becomes the most frightening as well as the Jewish population is brutally attacked in a pogrom.
When Yossi, a shoemaker respected for the wisdom of his advice, is invited to the wedding of the richest merchant in Budapest and then turned away because of his clothes, Yossi finds a way to teach the merchant a lesson
A JPS children's classic, these appealing stories bring life and character to letters of the Hebrew alphabet, blending legend, lore, and playful imagination.
Twelve-year-old Mia, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, learns to crochet so she can make a lace collar like the one her grandmother is wearing in the family's only surviving photograph
After allowing a small kitten to take the blame for something he did, K'tonton, a thumb-sized young boy, feels guilty when he goes to services at the synagogue on Yom Kippur