The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

Episode 392: The Shtetl Story behind The Light Keeper


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Co-authors Sheila Baslaw and Karen Levine joined "The Shmooze" to talk about "The Light Keeper," their illustrated children’s book that tells the story of ten-year-old Shmuel Saslovsky’s life in an early-twentieth-century shtetl. At 92, this is Sheila’s first published children’s book. In collaboration with Karen Levine, she worked to tell the story of how Sheila’s father Shmuel helped when electricity first came to his shtetl in Russia.
Epsiode 392
May 18, 2025
Amherst, MA
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