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.
In many shtetls throughout Podolye and Volhynia we often find a mound next to the synagogue. Surrounded by a traditional cemetery fence, the mound is known as the Grave for the Bride and Groom. And…
Words of Ahiqar, Elephantine, 5th century BCE. This Aramaic manuscript contains the oldest-known version of Ahiqar, a wisdom book that includes proverbs similar to those found in the biblical book of…