The Jewish Story Finder

The Jewish Story Finder

Author: Sharon Barcan Elswit

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 0786492864

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Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish society. Family, educators, and clergy employ stories to transmit Jewish culture, traditions, and values. This comprehensive bibliography identifies 668 Jewish folktales by title and subject, summarizing plot lines for easy access to the right story for any occasion. Some centuries old and others freshly imagined, the tales include animal fables, supernatural yarns, and anecdotes for festivals and holidays. Themes include justice, community, cause and effect, and mitzvahs, or good deeds. This second edition nearly doubles the number of stories and expands the guide's global reach, with new pieces from Turkey, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, and Chile. Subject cross-references and a glossary complete the volume, a living tool for understanding the ever-evolving world of Jewish folklore.


Mixing It Up: Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Intriguing Science in the Elementary Classroom

Mixing It Up: Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Intriguing Science in the Elementary Classroom

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Publisher: NSTA Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 193515530X

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This book—a compilation of 25 practical articles from NSTA’s elementary school journal, Science & Children—offers a wealth of lesson plans and idea starters using interdisciplinary, integrated, and thematic approaches. Discover how a language arts unit on survival can include student inquiry into properties of ice, ways to improve students’ observational skills as they write haiku about nature, how to use data collection and math in mapping the ocean floor, and more. To engage students schoolwide or in the great outdoors, several articles offer project-based interdisciplinary units that are widely adaptable. Each article is categorized by grade level, the National Science Education Standards it addresses, and whether it is interdisciplinary, integrated, thematic, or a combination of the three. Even teachers who lack a strong science background will find these concrete techniques especially valuable for teaching science through other subjects (and vice versa).


Mandrake's Mission

Mandrake's Mission

Author: Bernard G. Lord

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2002-07-08

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1465316647

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In 1944, an American bomber, carrying dead navigator Paul Mandrake, crashes in the Swiss Alps. Twenty-one years later, his son, Peter, learns that Stephen Craddock, the family lawyer, should be guardian of his fathers diamond university graduation ring, worth half a million dollars. Craddock, a sinister character, denies this. Is the ring still with Paul in the lost bomber? Peter is determined to find out, aided by his girlfriend, her geology professor and an old member of his fathers Flying Fortress squadron. The search entails exciting climbing sequences and dangerous encounters with ruthless competitors for possession of the diamond ring.


Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies

Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies

Author: Ella Elizabeth Clark

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780806120874

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Myths, personal narratives and historical traditions reveal beliefs and customs of twelve Indian tribes who once lived in the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming


A Yiddish Parody

A Yiddish Parody

Author: Daniel Halevi Bloom

Publisher: SP Books

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9780933503939

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In this parody of "The Night before Christmas" Santa visits a Jewish household on the night before Hanukkah.


Let Them Wait

Let Them Wait

Author: Nick Wright

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2014-02-26

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1491865792

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I am a man with sorrows behind me, and battles, too. I have regrets of which I seldom speak, nor too often think. For me, danger became a way of lifean accepted facet in the natural order of things. There is no bravado in wearing a gunit was, at the time, a necessity of life. A man could no more survive without a weapon than he could live without a horse or food. I was fourteen years old when they attacked me under cover of darkness and while I was in my own home. The only weapon I owned was a big, double-barreled eight-gauge shotgun that we used for small game and varmints; so, the night they came I killed my first two men with a borrowed pistol. That started my crusade. My search for justice, or maybe it was only for justification, led to more men joining the first two. Soon after, I began to acquire an unwanted and I felt, undeserved reputation as a gunman. I did not want to shoot peopleexcept one, I truly wanted to shoot him. But the others kept coming for me and I had wrongs to right. In the end, I hunted them.


Let It Be Written

Let It Be Written

Author: Arlene Hill

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-04-13

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1329041968

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Summer events, as recorded by various members of the Bradshaw family and cousin, Leon Frank, through letters and journals; demonstrating different viewpoints.