Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library

Don’t let the classification foul you, Malka Drucker‘s “Sukkot: a time to rejoice” is a great introduction to the holiday not just for children, despite that you will find this book in their section. It “discusses the longest and happiest holiday season in the Jewish year, and explains the customs, history and meaning connected with it. It includes games, recipes, puzzles and a glossary of terms.” It may be just 100 pages, but it covers all relevant information about the holiday. It may have black and white picture in it, but ten of them are photographs, dozens are drawings, and there are also scores of artworks from previous eras and illustrations from older books. For example at the bottom of this post you will see “The Sukkah” by Moritz Oppenheim from 1865. In short this is not just an informative book, but fun too.