The Mountain Jews and the Mirror (Kar-Ben Favorites) - Softcover

Ruchama Feuerman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467738964 ISBN 13: 9781467738965

Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Yosef and Estrella have spent their whole lives in Morocco's Atlas Mountains. When they move to the city, they face a strange, unfamiliar world. Will their love survive the surprises of their new home? A funny and charming folktale-like story of mistaken identities.

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About the Authors

Ruchama King Feuerman is the author of two adult novels, Seven Blessings and In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist. This is her first children's book. She lives in Passaic, New Jersey.

Marcela Calderon lives in Argentina. She likes the smell of graphite, the scent of wood pencils, the sound of chalk on paper, acrylic textures, and the feel of the eraser. Basically, she loves to draw.

Polona Kosec has an MA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She illustrates with acrylics, but she also enjoys drawing with other materials. She lives in Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia.

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The Mountain Jews and the Mirror

By Ruchama King Feuerman, Polona Kosec, Marcela Calderon

Kar-Ben Publishing

Copyright © 2015 Ruchama King Feuerman
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4677-3896-5

CHAPTER 1

In a faraway village in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Estrella and Yosef got married. Mazal bueno! All the mountain Jews threw them a big party.

But the new young couple worried. How would they feed and support themselves? Yosef made money selling nuts and raising sheep, but it wasn't enough for the two of them.

Then good news came. Estrella's uncle wrote to her parents, "Send the young couple to Casablanca. Yosef will work in my carpet shop. They can rent a small apartment close by."

Estrella and Yosef clasped their hands. An answer to their prayers! But then Estrella's face clouded. "How can we leave our village? We know nothing about the big city."

"Don't worry," said Yosef as they packed their few belongings.

When Estrella and Yosef arrived, they stared in amazement. Two whole rooms just for them! So much furniture! Smooth, shiny floors, not like the dirt floors in their village.

Soon, Yosef said goodbye to his wife and left for his new job at the carpet shop. Estrella walked to the market to buy vegetables.

She gazed at the other women walking past with their baskets, as the vendors called out, "Watermelon, cheap! Sweet tomatoes!"

"These women are so beautiful," thought Estrella with a pang. "Much more beautiful than I am.

While Estrella shopped, her cousins were lugging a wardrobe, step by step, up to the new couple's apartment. How heavy it was! It was the finest they could find. They placed it opposite the door, where it could be seen and admired by anyone who entered.

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1467738964
• ISBN 13: 9781467738965
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Polona Kosec, Marcela Calderon
• Number of pages: 32