Born in Philadelphia, Leslie Kimmelman attended Middlebury College. She is an author and editor of children’s books, many of which deal with Jewish subjects. Among other honors, Kimmelman received the 2000 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Young Readers award for her book, Dance, Sing, Remember.
When the fathers of Confederation built this country in 1867, there was universal agreement among all Canadians, English- and French-speaking, that there was no place for the American Dream on the…
As Performed at the Charleston Theatre
Alberti, Commander of the Florentine Army
Lorenso D’Medici, surnamed the Magnificent
Ippolito, betrothed to Antonia
Why, death, do you tarry so?
Why does your chariot come so slow?
Old age has prepared for me
Every illness and complaint.
What good are my hundred years?
If such pain I undergo—
Why, death…