Title Joseph who loved the Sabbath / retold by Marilyn Hirsh ; illustrated by Devis Grebu.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : Viking Kestrel, 1986.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department	FOLK & FAIRY TALES E HIR	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department	JUV. 398.2 H669J	Check Shelf

Description	32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 25 cm
Note	"The source of 'Joseph who loved the Sabbath, ' Yosef mokir Shabbat, is eight lines of Aramaic in the Babylonian Talmud (Tractate Shabbat, 119A) ... Marilyn Hirsh based this retelling on Emanuel bin Gorion's Mimekor Yisrael : classical Jewish folktales"--Colophon.
Summary	Despite his poverty, Joseph celebrated the seventh day with joy.
Awards	Sydney Taylor, 1986
Subject	Sabbath -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature.
	Folklore, Jewish -- Juvenile literature.
	Sabbath -- Folklore.
	Poor people -- Folklore.
	Poverty -- Folklore.
	Wealth -- Folklore.
	Folktales, Jewish.
	Dreams -- Folklore.
	Greed -- Folklore.
	Jews -- Folklore.
	Folklore.
	Sabbath. (OCoLC)fst01102941
Genre/Form	Folklore. (OCoLC)fst01423784
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Added Author	Grebu, Devis, 1933- illustrator.
ISBN	0670811947
	9780670811946

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