Give me back my sword! screams the Angel of Death at the renowned Jewish sage Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi of Zippori as they battle high above the gates of Paradise. Inspired by this legend from the Talmud, the 1862 poem The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi by the nineteenth-century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow describes the epic struggle of Rabbi Ben Levi to defeat the Angel of Death and end his reign of terror over mortal men. This stunning volume illustrates Longfellow’s poem with mosaic paintings, enhanced by quotations from the original Aramaic Talmud text.
Avi Katz was born in Philadelphia in 1949. After studying at the University of California, Berkeley, he moved to Israel in 1970, where he earned a master s in fine arts from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. He started in painting and art teaching before turning to illustration full time. His drawings, ranging from the realistic to the caricature and comics, have appeared in various magazines and newspapers in Israel and around the world. He has illustrated hundreds of books; the JPS Illustrated Children s Bible won the National Jewish Book Award, and his books have received the Hans Christian Andersen Award four times.
Pages36
Published2020
ISBN-139789657023549
Weight290 g