As a Jewish educator, keeping Jewish learning alive has been a priority. Early in my career, I taught two-year-old children and I wanted to find a way to engage them in learning about Jewish holidays and traditions. I was familiar with secular rhymes and finger plays and saw how they delighted young children. So, I decided to write Jewish rhymes to introduce the holidays to the children I was teaching. For each holiday, I created new rhymes and accompanying finger puppets as well as flannel board props to engage the children. The collection ultimately became my first published book, Fun with Jewish Holiday Rhymes. Published in 1992 by The UAHC Press (later URJ Press), the book went out of print last year when Behrman House acquired URJ Press and declined to print a new edition. Fun With Jewish Holiday Rhymes is out of stock except on the “secondary market”.
Since the rights to the book have been returned to me, I decided to make the book available to the current generation of early childhood educators and parents of toddlers. So, I took my one remaining copy and scanned it for use in schools and at home. Click here to go the scanned copy of Fun With Jewish Holiday Rhymes.
