Anna Olswangers charming folktale is the story of Reb Elias and the thieveswho try to steal his Passover wine. Based on a true story Shlemiel is animaginative i... » 

Anna Olswangers charming folktale is the story of Reb Elias and the thieveswho try to steal his Passover wine. Based on a true story Shlemiel is animaginative introduction for young children to the history of Passover asPharaoh and a town of Jewish immigrants play tugofwar with wine made fromgrapes left over from the exodus from Egypt. In its Yiddishinflected Englishpunctuated by amusing curses young readers read the language of a Jewishcommunity of another time while delighting to brilliant illustrations on everypage. «