Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World (Oxford Paperbacks)

Year 1988
Pages 393
Binding Paperback

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Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World (Oxford Paperbacks) by Howard Schwartz is a novel built around its characters and plot. The copy shown here is 1988 • Oxford Univ Pr • 393 pages.

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