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Living in a high mountain village in Ethiopia, Menelik, a young Ethiopian Jew, and his family are confronted with life-threatening oppression and persecution, and his father decides to lead the family on a perilous odyssey in search of sanctuary in Israel.
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Grade 3-6-This companion to Schur's Day of Delight (Dial, 1994) follows a family of Ethiopian Jews (the Beta Israel) in their escape from drought and persecution. Traveling at night on foot through mountains, plains, and desert, 12-year-old Menelik, his parents, and younger brother head for a Sudanese refugee camp. From there, the people are airlifted to Israel; given homes, clothing, and food; and assimilated into a...
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Gr. 2^-4, younger for reading aloud. Schur, who told about Sabbath as celebrated by the Jews of Ethiopia in Day of Delight (1994), broadens her canvas in this book, once again using Menelik, the son of a blacksmith, to narrate the story. This time, Menelik deals with history, not observance, as he speaks of the prejudice encountered by his family in their tiny village and recalls their desperate...
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- PublisherDial Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0803715625
- ISBN 13 9780803715622
- BindingLibrary Binding
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages64
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WHEN I LEFT MY VILLAGE
Seller: Windy Hill Books, Bacova, VA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Brian Pinkney (illustrator). First edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Juvenile story based in the plight and escape of the Ethiopian Jews. Seller Inventory # 031587
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