A number of the speakers to appear at the UPenn event
Three generations of her family, beginning with her paternal grandfather’s arrival from Transylvania, lived in Cuba — which was still taking in Jews when the United States had closed its doors.
She co-founded and performed with “The Pocket People,” a children’s theater group, and “Women’s Voices,” a group giving dramatized poetry readings.
The famed children's book author had once famously said “Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”
Jewish Book Council’s annual “Raid the Shelves” event, which, for $25, allows members of the public to take home as many of the nonprofit’s spare books as they can carry.
SASA Setton is engaged in a range of activities to promote the creation of original Hebrew literature for children and increased Hebrew literacy throughout Israel.
A famous workaholic, he reportedly was reviewing proofs of a book by the Jewish author Cynthia Ozick while helping his pregnant wife through labor.