After learning of President Lincoln's assassination, everyone at Rebecca's synagogue spontaneously rises to recite the Kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer of mourning.
Jane Yolen lives in Massachusetts and has written more than 400 books across all genres and age ranges, including the Sydney Taylor Honor book Miriam at the River. In 2022 she was named the The Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Winner. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century.
