Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales by Howard Schwartz Yiddish Learning Orit Avishai illustrates how LGBT

Orit Avishai illustrates how LGBT Jews accomplished this radical change

and how to make sense out of texts and customs that evolved from ancient times

Dolph Schayes

Yiddish and Jewish life

Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales by Howard Schwartz Yiddish Learning Orit Avishai illustrates how LGBTIn Leaves from the Garden of Eden, Howard Schwartz, a three time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, has gathered together one hundred of the most astonishing and luminous stories from Jewish folk tradition. Just as Schwartz's award winning book Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism collected the essential myths of Jewish tradition, Leaves from the Garden of Eden collects one hundred essential Jewish tales. As imaginative as the Arabian