Yosef's Dream
- Subject
- Bedtime & Dreams
- Age
- 3-5 years
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 36
- Publisher
- Apples & Honey Press
- Size
- 22.6 cm × 27.2 cm
- ISBN
- 9781681155067
A beautiful picture book set against the backdrop of the airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
A young Jewish boy in Ethiopia has a dream of flying on Eagle's wings to a new home. In this story of dreams, choices, and what it means to belong, Yosef and his family choose to fly to Israel, the land of their ancestors — fulfilling their long-held dream.
An author's note provides background about the Jews of Ethiopia and the 1991 rescue mission, called Operation Solomon.
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What reviewers said
"This story about Operation Solomon in 1991 is far gentler than another recent picture book, Yuvi’s Candy Tree by Lesley Simpson (Kar-ben, 2011), which tells of a little girl’s terrifying journey from Ethiopia to Sudan and then on to Israel through Operation Moses."
- AJL Reviews, Nov./Dec 2016
A dream to return to their Jewish homeland becomes a reality for Ethiopian Jews. As the narrator watches his brother become a bar mitzvah at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, he remembers his childhood in Ethiopia and the journey to their homeland, Israel. For generations, Yosef tells readers, Jews in Ethiopia believed that they “were the only Jews left in the world!” In his reminiscence, Yosef leaves his mother and sister to take food to his father and brother working in their fields before heading to school. He falls into a deep hole and cannot climb out. In a folkloric turn, Gazelle comes to him…
Modern Jewish history lives through the moving voice of one participant. (Picture book. 6-10) – Kirkus Reviews
