Scheherazade telling stories to spellbound soldiers, Sephardic kids "borrow' and old confused man off the street to pose as their Holocaust surviving grandfather, and the son of a shoemaker who delights in climbing construction cranes ... these are just a few of the characters who appear in Omer Friedlander's Association of Jewish Libraries' award winning collection, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land.

Contact the author at https://www.omerfriedlander.com/

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Thanks to:

· The Association of Jewish Libraries

· Heidi Rabinowitz, podcast mentor

· Dee Yan Key for use of their Freylekh (downloaded from https://freemusicarchive.org/home)

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