Reuven, being the smallest and fastest of his friends, learns an important lesson when he is challenged to follow the rabbi to find out where the man disappears to each year on the day before Rosh Hashanah.
Eleven-year-old Irish Catholic Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch form a wonderful, if unlikely, friendship in Brooklyn in 1947, but the actions of a group of anti-Semitic thugs soon have them trapped in a spiral of hate and hoping for a miracle.
Presents a Jewish twist on the Dicken's classic "A Christmas Carol" about the tyrant Scroogemacher who is visited by three ghostly rabbis on the last night of Hanukkah.
Leo Baeck and the Holocaust : illustrated with photographs
Neimark, Anne E
1986
Relates the story of a German Jew who became a great rabbi and national spiritual leader and fought courageously against the persecution of his people during the Nazi years.