Sonia Levitin, author of over 40 books for children and teens, has turned her award-winning 1987 novel The Return into a a musical stage play. RETURN chronicles an Ethiopian Jewish girl's walk to freedom in Israel via Operation Moses.
After hearing The Book of Life's "Black History Month, Jewish Style" episode, with its feature on the Abayudaya of Uganda, Sonia emailed to tell us about RETURN, and this podcast interview is the result!
Scroll down to watch a video of the musical number "Falasha" from the play, RETURN.
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>Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the first black sub-Saharan rabbi, joins us to talk about the Abayudaya people of Uganda, his CD Sing for Joy, and Be'chol Lashon ("In Every Tongue"), an organization that supports the diversity of the Jewish people.
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... hosts The Book of Life podcast
... directs the library at Congregation B'nai Israel in Boca Raton
... presides @ South Florida Association of Jewish Libraries
... hangs around with the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee, the PJ Library book selection committee, and anyone else who has a thing for children's books ...
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