Results for “Jewish”

Ages 3–8

In this poignant picture book about family and belonging, the child of a Jewish mother and a South Asian father hears stories about her family history.

Ages 3–8

"Coinciding with 'The snow day's' 50th anniversary, this book features illustrations of Mr. Keats along with essays by Claudia J. Nahson and Maurice Berger discussing Keats' Jewish background, his advocacy of civil rights, his art and his influence"--Dust jacket flap.

Ages 3–8

An elderly black grandmother passes on the story of the family’s Jewish origins to her young granddaughter, Carol Olivia. As family members flee the Spanish Inquisition, are kidnapped by pirates and eventually sail to America, one daughter in each generation is given the name Olivia, from the Hebrew Shulamit meaning “peace,” to honor the Jewish part of their ancestry.