The Treasure
Uri Shulevitz
1978
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Creator Bio
Uri Shulevitz
b. 1935
Uri Shulevitz was born in Warsaw, and lived in France and Israel before moving to the United States in 1959. Shulevitz is an award- winning author and illustrator of children’s books. He was honored with the 1969 Caldecott Medal.
This book retells the legendary founding of the Isaac Synagogue in Kraków, originally told by Simcha Bunim of Peshischa in the nineteenth century.
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