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The Treasure
Uri Shulevitz
1978
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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.
In the first place, it behoves us to fight the opinion that the regeneration of the service can be achieved only by a complete break with the past, by abolishing all traditional and inherited…
How sweet is the light, what a delight for the eyes to behold the sun! Even if a man lives many years, let him enjoy himself in all of them, remembering how many the days of darkness are…
The skeptics and rebels who have just recently appeared in our literature say: What? The Jews have survived? Yes, it’s true they have survived. But, my friends, survival alone is not yet a virtue…