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Uri Shulevitz

Autor(a) de Snow

24+ Works 5,250 Membros 238 Críticas 2 Favorited

About the Author

Obras por Uri Shulevitz

Snow (1998) 1,486 exemplares
The Treasure (1978) 1,056 exemplares
How I Learned Geography (2008) 677 exemplares
One Monday Morning (1967) 623 exemplares
Rain Rain Rivers (1969) 185 exemplares
Dawn (1656) 125 exemplares
So Sleepy Story (2006) 104 exemplares
The Magician (1973) 94 exemplares
The Secret Room (1993) 82 exemplares
The Golden Goose (1995) 75 exemplares
Dusk (2013) 67 exemplares
Toddlecreek Post Office (1767) 55 exemplares
When I Wore My Sailor Suit (2009) 52 exemplares
The Moon in my Room (2003) 26 exemplares
Troto and the Trucks (2015) 24 exemplares
Oh What a Noise! (1971) 11 exemplares
The Carpet of Solomon 2 exemplares
The Silkspinners 2 exemplares
האוצר 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1968) — Ilustrador — 713 exemplares
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (1966) — Ilustrador — 633 exemplares
Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural (1988) — Ilustrador — 252 exemplares
The Golem (1969) — Ilustrador — 248 exemplares
Hanukah Money (1978) — Ilustrador — 218 exemplares
The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the World (1991) — Ilustrador — 178 exemplares
A Rose, a Bridge, and a Wild Black Horse (Hooked on Phonics, Book 29) (1964) — Ilustrador, algumas edições141 exemplares
The Fools of Chelm and Their History (1973) — Ilustrador — 114 exemplares
Tikvah: Children's Book Creators Reflect on Human Rights (2001) — Contribuidor — 61 exemplares
Hosni the Dreamer: An Arabian Tale (1997) — Ilustrador — 53 exemplares
The Lost Kingdom of Karnica (1979) — Ilustrador — 27 exemplares
Soldier and Tsar in the Forest: A Russian Tale (1972) — Ilustrador — 27 exemplares
The Treasure of the Turkish Pasha (1965) — Ilustrador — 20 exemplares
The Month Brothers (1967) — Ilustrador — 5 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1935-02-27
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Poland (birth)
USA
Local de nascimento
Warsaw, Poland
Locais de residência
Warsaw, Poland (1935-1939)
Fugitive (1939-1947)
Paris, France (1947-1949)
Tel Aviv, Israel (1949-1959)
New York, New York, USA (1959- )
Educação
Teachers' Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel Aviv Art Institute
Brooklyn Museum Art School
Ocupações
soldier (Israeli army)
children's book author
children's book illustrator
Holocaust survivor
painter
memoirist
Prémios e menções honrosas
Guggenheim Fellowship

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Uri Shulevitz was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland. He began drawing at the age of three and never stopped. He was four years old when Nazi Germany invaded in World War II. The family fled the city and spent eight years wandering across thousands of miles in Europe, eventually arriving in Paris in 1947. There Shulevitz developed an enthusiasm for French comic books. He won first prize in an elementary school drawing competition in Paris's 20th arrondissement. In 1949, the family moved to Israel. Shulevitz worked at a variety of jobs, including as an apprentice at a rubber-stamp shop, a carpenter, and a dog-license clerk. He studied at the Teachers' Institute in Tel Aviv, where he took courses in literature, anatomy, and biology, and also studied at the Tel Aviv Art Institute. At age 15, he was the youngest artist to exhibit in a group drawing show at the Tel Aviv Museum. During the 1956 Suez-Sinai War, he joined the Israeli Army. In 1959, he moved to New York City, where he studied painting at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and worked as an illustrator for a Hebrew children's book publisher. In 1962, an editor at Harper & Row saw his freelance portfolio and suggested he create children's books. He published his first picture book, The Moon in My Room, in 1963.

Since then, he was written and illustrated many celebrated children’s books. He won the 1969 Caldecott Medal for The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, written by Arthur Ransome. He has also earned three Caldecott Honors, for The Treasure (1978), Snow (1998), and How I Learned Geography (2008). Also among his more than 40 books are One Monday Morning, Dawn, and So Sleepy Story. In 2020, he published a memoir called Chance: Escape from the Holocaust: Memories of a Refugee Childhood.

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Críticas

Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy's father brings home a map instead of bread for supper, at first the boy is furious. But when the map is hung on the wall, it floods their cheerless room with color. As the boy studies its every detail, he is transported to exotic places without ever leaving the room, and he eventually comes to realize that the map feeds him in a way that bread never could. The award-winning artist's most personal work to date is based on his childhood memories of World War II and features stunning illustrations that celebrate the power of imagination. An author's note includes a brief description of his family's experience, two of his early drawings, and the only surviving photograph of himself from that time. How I Learned Geography is a 2009 Caldecott Honor Book and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.… (mais)
 
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Quilt18 | 76 outras críticas | Nov 5, 2023 |
This extraordinary memoir for readers in middle grade and up recounts events from the childhood of author and artist Uri Shulevitz, who survived the Holocaust with his father and mother. Documenting his Jewish family’s eight-year journey, he said in an interview about this book, “'It would be hard to invent this story,” says Shulevitz, who is now 85 and lives in New York City. 'If I wrote this as fiction people would think it was too fantastic.’”

The story begins in Warsaw, Poland on September 1, 1939 when “Nazi planes burst into the Warsaw skies….” Uri was four years old. The bombings continued for days. Shulevitz writes:

“When the smoke settled . . . some people who a second ago had been standing on the breadline lay dead; others lay wounded. It all seemed unreal. Dazed, I watched, frozen in place. The distance between life and death had vanished. One second life, the next death.”

He observed that survival became a game of chance. Interestingly, even Uri’s name figured into the odds of whether his family lived or died. As a newborn, Uri stared at the flowers on their wallpaper all the time, so he was named after the biblical Uri, the first artist of the Bible. In 1940, after the family fled to Bialystok in the Soviet Union, Uri’s father tried to register them as Soviet citizens. The clerk refused, accusing his father of naming Uri after the “Zionist poet” Uri Zvi Greenberg, concluding they must also be “anti-Soviet reactionaries.” Not being able to get official papers changed the course of their lives, and ultimately and improbably contributed to their survival.

Sometimes Shulevitz reflects on the role chance played in his life as opposed to, as some claimed, divine intervention. He asks:

“Why would divine intervention have saved my parents’ lives when they were not religious? Why, then, did my devout grandfather die a miserable death at the hands of the Nazis, when he was a deeply religious man who observed every single commandment of his faith with love and devotion? Why was he not saved by divine intervention? I have no answers.”

This is the same question the famous Holocaust survivor, writer, and humanist Elie Wiesel grappled with, as well as many other survivors of the Holocaust. Shulevitz’s story is replete with events, however, in which it seemed to be only chance that stood between life and death. God was not in the picture. He could relate to the sentiment of the basic Soviet "theology" he absorbed: “Don’t waste your time asking God for beans; you’ll get nothing. Better ask the Soviets - they deliver.” When, after the war ended, Uri was near death in a hospital with diphtheria and scarlet fever, and the principal of his school said they had asked their rabbi in New York to pray for him, Uri writes:

“Dear reader, what saved my life? The prayers of the great rabbi of Brooklyn, or potato puree and a new wonder drug called penicillin? You decide.”

Throughout his childhood, Uri found ways to cope with experiences of intense and unrelenting hunger, combined with constant fear and antisemitic attacks. He wrote “days followed days when we had not a bite of food.” Many, many nights were spent sleeping in trains, sleeping outside, or not sleeping at all. At first, drawing became his primary means to distract himself. He would use a stick to draw in the dirt or burn a twig to use as charcoal. He made colors from flower petals or leaves. Later, when he had access to books, he found refuge in escapism through the adventures of heroes in literature. [After the war, he combined the two interests to make award-winning books.]

The conclusion of the war did not end their troubles, as other Jews in Europe found as well. The family tried to reestablish their lives in Poland, but many Poles had taken over residences and properties owned previously by Jews and they would not give them back. There were even murders of Jews who tried to return. In Kielce, Poland, for example, 42 Jews were killed in 1946 in a stunning episode of violence. Eventually Uri’s family tried living in Paris and then emigrated to Israel in 1949. In 1959, Uri moved to New York.

The book has many of Shulevitz’s illustrations, some saved from his childhood, but most created for this story. Perhaps a third of the book is in a graphic, comic-book style format. It is a saga readers will find hard to forget.
… (mais)
 
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nbmars | 3 outras críticas | Aug 31, 2023 |
Genre
Bedtime stories
Picture books for children
Tone
Quiet
Whimsical
Illustration
Muted
Subject
Bedtime
Boys
Houses
Imagination in children
Music
Musical notation
Night
Repetition in stories
Sleep
Sleepiness
Character
Anthropomorphic
 
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kmgerbig | 8 outras críticas | Apr 28, 2023 |
A book about a refugee that finds comfort and joy in studying a map. This could be good for history or learning about refugees or geography. A good read-aloud for any age or individual for 2nd to 3rd depending on reading level.
 
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HaliaMclucas | 76 outras críticas | Mar 2, 2023 |

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Obras
24
Also by
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Membros
5,250
Popularidade
#4,748
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
238
ISBN
150
Línguas
7
Marcado como favorito
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