The Treasure

Uri Shulevitz

1978

Painting of city street with bridge over river in foreground and several figures on the far side of the bridge.

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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.

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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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The Treasure

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