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Joseph Who Loved the Sabbath
Marilyn Hirsh
Devis Grebu
1986
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Marilyn Hirsh was born in Chicago, attended Carnegie Mellon University and served in the Peace Corps. Hirsh was a children’s author and the illustrator of more than thirty books addressing Jewish and Indian culture. A specialist in Indian and Buddhist art, she taught at the Cooper Union and the New York University Institute of Fine Arts and received the Sydney Taylor Body of Work Award in 1979.
Born in Romania, Devis Grebu is an artist whose illustrations have spanned many genres, including children's books, postage stamps, commercial ads, playing cards, fashion, animation, and theater sets. Previously a resident of United States, Israel, and France, he has lived in Romania since 2001.
Credo in a kind of
American jewish Hamlet-like
bagel, too round for action
yet leavened enough by contact
with the near-dead past—you call it
landscape, I call it history—to provide
a layered vantage…
Now in that same shtetl there lived a youth named Shimen, but he was nicknamed Simkhe (joy, celebration) and Plakhte (coarse cloth) because he was barefoot and almost naked and that was all he wore…
To Hoshaiah. Your welfare (may DN seek after at all times).
Now, look after the children by yourself until Ahutab comes. Do not entrust them to others.
If their bread is ground, knead for them 1 qab,…