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The Rooster Princess

It’s time to change things up in the world of Jewish Storytelling!

Since Jewish women are famously strong, it’s ironic only two collections of Jewish folklore have featured women until now. In The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish Stories Repopulated with Spunky Heroines, Wise Women, Brave Crones and Powerful Prophetesses, women take center stage. In this innovative collection of Jewish tales, we’ve left the plots and lessons intact, while substituting the leading male characters with females. We’ve also included original stories, Torah stories, and personal stories from our group of ten maggidot (Jewish women storytellers.) The result? The profound wisdom and delight of our stories now shines with the power of women.

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“The fresh feminine perspective found in The Rooster Princess will both tickle and uplift its readers. This is a much-needed treasury of women’s tales, containing voices that have gone missing from Jewish literature for far too long.”

~ Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD, author of The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women’s Wisdom

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Praise for The Rooster Princess and Other Tales

“The stories we tell are a reflection of who we are and who we dream of becoming. These stories are rich and resonant with the feminine, at once familiar and entirely new. Like all great folk tales, Chelm stories, and fables, they teach us and inspire us to feel. I look forward to returning to these tales again and again, and sharing them with generations to come.”

~ Rachel Barenblat, “the Velveteen Rabbi,” author of Texts to the Holy.

“The Rooster Princess and Other Tales is a collection of fascinating and profound folktales embedded with the wisdom of Jewish Values. The strong Women characters have replaced the male with appropriateness and integrity. This brings a new perspective to mirror our lives and deepen the meaning of our folklore.”

~ Peninnah Schram, author of Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another, and Stories Within Stories: From the Jewish Oral Tradition.

“The Rooster Princess and Other Tales is a highly recommended collection of stories that puts women front and center in Jewish folklore. The stories range from the Biblical Eve to Edel, the daughter of the Baal Shem Tov, to Hannah of Chelm, as well as including contemporary personal stories. What an excellent resource for teachers, storytellers, and readers who will delight and be inspired by these stories that place women in leading roles while staying true to the meaning of the original tales.”

Barbara Damond Goldin, co-author of Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Wise Women of the Bible, with Jane Yolen.

“The Rooster Princess and Other Tales is filled with heroines from countless times and places who are strong, capable and brave. Taken altogether, they form the book’s kaleidoscopic view of Jewish females and the feminine. Both women and men need to read The Rooster Princess to learn the women’s wisdom that shines through the tales and into our hearts.”

Cherie Karo Schwartz, author of Circle Spinning: Jewish Turning and Returning Tales.