Every Holocaust survivor has a unique story to tell. Every time I read a true-life Holocaust story, I think of the above quote by Mark Twain.
העדי של עדי/ Adi’s Locket by נאוה מקמל-עתיר/Nava Macmel-Atir is based on a Holocaust survivor’s true story. Right before Adi’s 8th birthday, Adi received a locket as a gift from her grandmother Savta Roza. The locket had been given to Savta Roza by her own grandmother when Savta Roza was eight years old. Ten years later as the Germans invaded her town, Roza hid the locket in the family piano. Saved by a friend of the family, she was hidden in a monastery until the end of the war. After the war, Roza and her parents returned to their home to find not a piece of furniture was left. After many years, how was the lost locket eventually found? Ages 9-10.
נאוה מקמל-עתיר/Nava Macmel-Atir is an author, playwright, and poet. She writes books for children of all ages as well as adults. Her best-known books are her children’s book העדי של עדי and her adult novel אות מאבשלום/ A Letter from Avshalom.
נקודה למחשבה/ A Spot for Thought (The title is a play on words which is hard to translate). The book tells the story of a princess born to the tiny kingdom of Ashleer. She is the first princess ever to be born without a beauty mark above her upper lip! The only solution was to have a beauty mark painted on the princess early every morning. What happens one morning when the royal painter oversleeps? Does the princess even care about her ”beauty mark”? Ages 7-9.
מבחן קבלה/ The Audition is a coming- of- age book for young teens ages 12- 14. Sol, the daughter of a Russian oleh family, is having a roller coaster of a year. She doesn’t get a role in the local play, she has an argument with her best friend, and she’s shunned by a group of girls in her class. She meets a boy and there is an instant attraction. With all this going on, Sol will also help a young girl running from the police, and the result of that help will change everything.
Every Holocaust survivor has a unique story to tell. Every time I read a true-life Holocaust story, I think of the above quote by Mark Twain.
העדי של עדי/ Adi’s Locket by נאוה מקמל-עתיר/Nava Macmel-Atir is based on a Holocaust survivor’s true story. Right before Adi’s 8th birthday, Adi received a locket as a gift from her grandmother Savta Roza. The locket had been given to Savta Roza by her own grandmother when Savta Roza was eight years old. Ten years later as the Germans invaded her town, Roza hid the locket in the family piano. Saved by a friend of the family, she was hidden in a monastery until the end of the war. After the war, Roza and her parents returned to their home to find not a piece of furniture was left. After many years, how was the lost locket eventually found? Ages 9-10.
נאוה מקמל-עתיר/Nava Macmel-Atir is an author, playwright, and poet. She writes books for children of all ages as well as adults. Her best-known books are her children’s book העדי של עדי and her adult novel אות מאבשלום/ A Letter from Avshalom.
נקודה למחשבה/ A Spot for Thought (The title is a play on words which is hard to translate). The book tells the story of a princess born to the tiny kingdom of Ashleer. She is the first princess ever to be born without a beauty mark above her upper lip! The only solution was to have a beauty mark painted on the princess early every morning. What happens one morning when the royal painter oversleeps? Does the princess even care about her ”beauty mark”? Ages 7-9.
מבחן קבלה/ The Audition is a coming- of- age book for young teens ages 12- 14. Sol, the daughter of a Russian oleh family, is having a roller coaster of a year. She doesn’t get a role in the local play, she has an argument with her best friend, and she’s shunned by a group of girls in her class. She meets a boy and there is an instant attraction. With all this going on, Sol will also help a young girl running from the police, and the result of that help will change everything.
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Tip no. 4 Invite Hebrew into your home! But building up a library of Israeli children’s books can be expensive. You can save money by buying books at your local second-hand bookstore. Over the next few months, I will be posting the names and contact information for second- hand books stores all around the country. I’m starting today with my two favorite bookstores.
דני ספרים/ Dani Sefarim, רח' אבן ישראל 3 , Jerusalem, 02-6248293. This second-hand bookstore is just around the corner from the full price Dani Sefarim store which is on the corner of Yaffo St. and King George St. I have been buying second-hand children’s books at this store for at least 20 years.
The store is located in the underground parking of the Modiin Azrielli Mall.
ESRA Bookshop, Azrieli mall, first parking level, end of row 18, near the exit to Emek Hachula, Modiin, 08-6346528. Only this ESRA Bookshop sells children’s books in Hebrew. The ESRA bookshops in Ra’anana and Binyamina only sell books in English.
Tip no. 4 Invite Hebrew into your home! But building up a library of Israeli children’s books can be expensive. You can save money by buying books at your local second-hand bookstore. Over the next few months, I will be posting the names and contact information for second- hand books stores all around the country. I’m starting today with my two favorite bookstores.
דני ספרים/ Dani Sefarim, רח' אבן ישראל 3 , Jerusalem, 02-6248293. This second-hand bookstore is just around the corner from the full price Dani Sefarim store which is on the corner of Yaffo St. and King George St. I have been buying second-hand children’s books at this store for at least 20 years.
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| The store is located in the underground parking of the Modiin Azrielli Mall. |
ESRA Bookshop, Azrieli mall, first parking level, end of row 18, near the exit to Emek Hachula, Modiin, 08-6346528. Only this ESRA Bookshop sells children’s books in Hebrew. The ESRA bookshops in Ra’anana and Binyamina only sell books in English.
Thanks for adding the recommended ages for each book. And a great tip.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I have a list of second-hand bookstores from Haifa to Beersheva.
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