On Purim

by Cathy Goldberg Fishman

Other authorsMelanie W. Hall (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2000

Status

Available

Call number

H PR E 296.43 FIS

Publication

Atheneum (2000), Edition: First Edition, 40 pages

Description

Uses the story of a family's preparations for the Jewish holiday of Purim to explain the traditions connected with this celebration.

Library's rating

Barcode

6342

Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)

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User reviews

LibraryThing member STBA
One of the best books on holidays created by Fishman and Hall, this combines evocative illustrations with a narrative that is sensitive to the paradoxes of a holiday in which God's name in never mentioned.

ISBN

0689823924 / 9780689823923

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