Joseph who loved the Sabbath
By: retold by Marilyn Hirsh ; illustrated by Devis Grebu.
Contributors: Grebu, Devis, 1933- ill.
Series: Picture Puffins
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Sabbath -- Folklore.; Jews -- Folklore.; Folklore.
Description: Despite his poverty, Joseph celebrated the seventh day with joy.
Notes: "The source of 'Joseph who loved the Sabbath,' Yosef mokir Shabbat, is eight lines of Aramaic in the Babylonian Talmud (Tractate Shabbat, 119A) ... Marilyn Hirsh based this retelling on Emanuel bin Gorion's Mimekor Yisrael: classical Jewish folktales"--P. [32].
"Ages 3-8"--P. [4] of cover.