A magic meat grinder helps a poor Jewish couple learn a little gratitude after the three wishes it grants them go awry.

Thirteen brief, illustrated, traditional Jewish tales, each accompanied by an appropriate saying.

Set in the famous town of Chelm, a mythical village populated, according to Jewish folklore, by fools, Tova's father asks Tova to help him find a way to get milk from their hens, and the results are hilarious.

A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.

When the family gathers to celebrate Hanukkah, Grandfather tells his own story of the holiday from World War II.

During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle.

During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.

In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children were capable of governing themselves, he encouraged the orphans to elect a parliament, run a court, and put out their own weekly newspaper. Even when Korczak was forced to move the orphanage into the Warsaw Ghetto after Hitler's rise to power, and couldn't afford to buy food and medicine for...

A story set in Belgium during World War II. Professor Solomon is intrigued by a beautiful painting, The Lady, displayed in the window of the antique shop owned by Willys papa. Entering the store to make their purchase, the professor and his son, Max, meet Willy, and the two boys soon become inseparable companions.

When Mirka is forced to babysit her disapproving little sister Layele, they encounter a wish-granting fish in the woods, but soon discover the fish has a generation-old grudge with Layele's mother--and possesses Layele in order to get revenge.