Items with the tag: fairy tales & folk tales | Jewish Book Council

Essay

The Jewish Roots of Wonder Woman’s Pop Feminism

Lori Harrison-Kahan

December 21, 2020

Fiction—From the Journal

The Little Bottles

Weaver

December 14, 2020

Cover of The Eight Knights of Hanukkah

The Eight Knights of Hanukkah

Leslie Kimmelman, Galia Bernstein (illus.)

Cover of Anya and the Nightingale

Anya and the Nightingale

Sofiya Pasternack

Essay

Jews and Fantasy, or Tom Bombadil is my Rebbe

Gavriel Savit

November 24, 2020

Cover of Such a Library: A Yiddish Folktale Re-Imagined

Such a Library: A Yiddish Folktale Re-Imagined

Jill Ross Nadler

Cover of Nicanor's Gate

Nicanor’s Gate

Eric A. Kimmel, Alida Massari (illus.)

Cover of The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folklore Archives

The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folklore Archives

Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg (eds.)

Cover of How to Fracture a Fairy Tale

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale

Cover of In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times

In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times

David Stromberg, ed.

Cover of A Palace of Pearls: The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

A Palace of Pearls: The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

Howard Schwartz; Zann Jacobrown, illus.

Essay

Love as Freedom, Love as Separation, in Japanese and Jewish Tales

Kenny Fries

October 5, 2017

Cover of The Inquisitor’s Tale

The Inquisitor’s Tale

Adam Gidwitz; Hatem Aly, illus.

Cover of Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends, and Letters

Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends, and Letters

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Peninnah Schram

Interview

Interview: Gavriel Savit

with Shira SchindelJewish Book Council sat down with Gavriel Savit to discuss his debut novel, Anna and the Swallow Man, the velvety mind of Borges, Holocaust fatigue,…

Shira Schindel

January 21, 2016

Essay

Discovering the Pinch: Part II; or, Animating a Literary Golem

Earlier this week, Steve Stern offered his recollections of the Memphis community in which he grew up and the Jewish mythical lore occupying it. His most recent…

Steve Stern

July 29, 2015