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The Girl Who
Would Be Queen

A retelling of the Purim story, plus the private
Yitzhak Shamir and a temple bombing.

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR

t's heeeeeeere!
Well, almost.
With Pesach just weeks away,
no doubt you're still in the
midst of cleaning (if, in fact, you've
already started) and planning
menus, so you're wondering, "Isn't
there anything new I can make to
eat?"
There is. Gail Ashkanazi-Han-
kin's Passover Lite (Pelican) is
a thoroughly delicious collection
of recipes (Algerian charoset,
strawberry angel food cake) that
are, as the title promises, not
laden with calories or heavy with
rich sauces. Besides, it's fun to
read ("I make a big batch of this
(horseradish) because my family
happens to love a little gefilte fish
with their horseradish," the au-
thor writes).
What's especially nice about
this collection is that it doesn't of-
fer the same old, predictable Pe-
sach fare.
Instead, Ms. Ashkanazi-Han-
kin has recipes for such tempting
taste treats as "Forty Years in the
\_) Desert Trail Mix" (granola), low-
/-.
cal cheese blintzes, mango smooth-
ie, tomato salsa, culled salmon in
potatoes, Indian stew, egg rolls,
pear blueberry crisp and no-cho-
lesterol chocolate chiffon cake.
Chapters cover breakfast foods;
salads, dressings and dips; soups;
fish, chicken turkey and beef; veg-
> etarian main dishes; vegetables;
kugels and tzimmis; fruit; and
desserts.
And honestly, this stuff looks
yummy. You won't run in terror,
as all of us have at one time or an-
other, from some Pesach so-called
foods.
Ms. Ashkanazi-Rankin is an il-
/ lustrator and art teacher who lives
in Denver, Colo. She worked for
more than 10 years "cooking, tast-
ing, testing, perfecting, writing,
rewriting, editing, typing, retyp-
ing, proofreading, and correcting'
this book.

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ybbuk is a love story.
The two haven't even been
born, but already the angels
have decided: Leah will
marry Chonon. So begins Dybbuk:
A Story Made in Heaven (Green-
willow), a children's book by
Francine Prose, with illustrations
by Mark Podwal. As the tale un-
folds, Leah and Chonon meet in
the town of Chopski, fall in love at
first sight and decide to wed.
"But because Chonon was a
student and poor, Leah's parents
. had other plans. They wanted her

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to marry Mean Old Benya, the
most powerful man in Chopski."
They proceed with wedding plans.
On the day the marriage is to
take place, something strange
happens to Leah. Her voice be-
comes deep and growling. The
Grand Rabbi of Chopski an-
nounces: "Your beautiful daugh-
ter has been possessed by a
dybbuk!"
Is Leah really possessed by a
dybbuk, and if so is it actually
Chonon? Will Leah marry Mean
Old Benya or be reunited at last
with her true love, Chonon?
You'll have to read the book to
find out.
Also new from Greenwillow
Press: Four Perfect Pebbles, by
Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal
Lazan, is the story of a little girl,
her brother and parents during
the Holocaust.
At first, the family manages to
escape to Holland — but then this
country, too, is occupied by the
Nazis. For more than six years,
the Blurnenthals live in refugee,
transit and prison camps, includ-
ing Westerbork and Bergen-
Belsen. Yet incredibly, they all
survive the war.
Esther's Story (Morrow), by
Diane Wolkstein and with illus-
trations by Juan Wijngaard, is a
retelling of the famous tale of a
young Jewish girl who becomes
queen.
"Esther" writes of her first
meeting with the king who will
eventually become her husband:

The king was standing by the
window. He looked a little lonely.
His arms were folded. I folded
mine in the same way. He
scratched his head. I scratched
mine, and a tiny pink rose fell to
the floor. As I bent down to pick
it up, the king said "How beauti-
ful you are!"
I put the rose in his curly hair
and said 'How beautiful you are'
He laughed. I liked his laugh.
It was deep and growly and un-
expected.

Of course, not everything in this
kingdom is so rosy. There's a new
prime minister named Haman.

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n Shalom, Friend (Newmar-
ket Press), the staff of the
Jerusalem Report ( Kith editing
by David Horovitz) provide a
telling look at the life of slain Is-
raeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Ra-
bin.
It is a picture of an indepen-

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