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.
Brooklyn-born Paul Yalowitz is an illustrator and author. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from The University of Hartford. He has illustrated thirteen children’s books and is now writing and illustrating his own stories. Yalowitz teaches illustration at Framingham State University in Massachusetts.
He burst into laughter that immediately frightened him. Just then he passed the “Cold Synagogue”—a synagogue in which, it was said, the dead came to say their prayers on Saturday nights, wearing white…
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…