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The City of Light, Theodore Bikel & Aimee Ginsburg Bikel ; illustrations by Noah Phillips

eng

autobiography

illustrations

no index present

10 and up

non fiction

The City of Light

Theodore Bikel & Aimee Ginsburg Bikel ; illustrations by Noah Phillips

"A young Jewish boy strolls through Vienna and witnesses acts of anti-Semitism during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. At night he dreams of a superhero, Judah Maccabee, who appears to defend Vienna's Jews. When he awakes, he knows there will be no Maccabean rescue and he weeps. Years pass, the boy, now an old man, returns to Vienna and sees the Jewish community and the Temple have been restored. He looks for the eternal light in his Temple and can't find it. Then suddenly it becomes clear to him: The light was there all the time; it was in his own heart"--, Provided by publisher

pre adolescent