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Product details
- ISBN 9781681157078
- Dimensions: 203 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Behrman House Inc.,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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From award-winning author team Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky, these portraits of 26 Jewish role models from A to Z cover a wide array of historical and modern public figures, one for each letter of the alphabet.
Alliterative one-line biographies introduce a diverse collection of activists, scientists, athletes, artists, directors, musicians, and more, with colorful, eye-catching portrait illustrations and inspirational quotes. Heroes are people who make the world a better place, and children are prompted to imagine how they might make a difference too.
Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen is the award-winning author or coauthor of many books for children including Rembrandt Chooses a Queen, Sydney Taylor Award-winning An Etrog from Across the Sea, An Invitation to Passover, Nachshon Who Was Afraid to Swim, and the Engineer Ari series, as well as The Heroes Haggadah. She is an editor at Behrman House and the rabbi of Congregation Beth Chai. She lives in Rockville, Maryland. Rabbi Kerry Olitzky is the author or coauthor of nearly 100 books for children and adults, including Welcome to the Seder: A Passover Haggadah for Everyone; The Heroes Haggadah; Rembrandt Chooses a Queen, Sydney Taylor Award-winning An Etrog from Across the Sea, and Miryam’s Dance. The former executive director of Big Tent Judaism, he was named one of the fifty leading rabbis in North America by Newsweek. He lives in New Jersey.
Jeanine Murch is an illustrator with a lifelong love of art, books, and storytelling. She earned her BFA from The University of the Arts then began her career in the big publishing houses of New York City, designing and art directing children's books for over a decade. When she made the leap from corporate world to freelance, she returned to her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA where she now works from her home studio and lives with her husband and two children, who inspire her work.
