A retired oral language teacher for special-needs students, Canadian-born Aubrey Davis is a storyteller and children’s author. He lives in Toronto and was the recipient of the 2003 Sydney Taylor Book Award and the 2004 Canadian Jewish Book Awards Children’s Literature Prize.
. . . An empty street. An unfamiliar shack. A tightly shut gate. And hanging over the gate, over the dead street, over us all—a Cossack cap with a raspberry-colored band. A trail of smoke from an…
Nathan, the shoemaker from Porisov, a small Jewish village in Poland, came home one evening shortly before his departure for Colombia with a Torah scroll under his arm. With a slight shiver, he lay…
The Holy Community of Altona, Friday, 29 Marheshvan 5621[14 November 1860]
To my dear friend, father of my son-in-law, the distinguished rabbi, our Teacher, R. Shemaryahu Zuckerman, may his…