Mendel Rosenbusch : Tales for Jewish Children

by Weber, Ilse; Fisher, Ruth; Fisher, Hans; Fisher, Ruth; Fisher, Hans

• ISBN13: 9781928746195
• ISBN10: 1928746195
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Barricade Books

Summary

Eleven stories about Mendel Rosenbusch, a poor but wise man who lives behind the synagogue in a small Czech town and who is visited one night by the angel Rafael.

Author Biography

Ilse Weber was born in 1903 in Austria-Hungary. A prolific playwright, radio producer, children's author, and poet, she published three books in Czechoslovakia. At age thirty-nine she and her family were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where she spent the most difficult, and creative, two years of her life, composing poetry and performing her songs for children and the elderly. She perished at age forty-one at Auschwitz in 1945, along with her son Tommy Hans Fisher (translator) is a nutritional biochemist at Cook College, Rutgers University Ruth Fisher (translator) is a musician who specializes in chamber music

Table of Contents

l Rosenbusch	1	(4)
Rivke Bakes Challah	5	(3)
An Angel Visits Rebekka	8	(6)
Auntie Hanni's Birthday	14	(13)
The Bar Mitzvah Watch	27	(5)
Ruth and Gerson	32	(7)
Uri the Rascal	39	(18)
Baruch the Benefactor	57	(8)
Simche the Liar	65	(13)
Abi, the Water-Shy Lad	78	(8)
Resele and Tesele	86	(17)
Glossary	103	(5)
Afterword	108