Marcus Lehmann, an author with Feldheim, had a series of Jewish biographies in a fictionalized form but true. Many are not in publication anymore but some are (R. Akiva). Check out Feldheim. He is very good. Don't forget about Michener's The Source - may be a bit much for high school but I read it in High School and learned a lot. There are also novels about Don Isaac Abarbanel and his influence before and during the Spanish Inquision and expulsion. There are very few novels about biblical personalities that remain true to Jewish tradition. Ilene Wieselthier
And Rachel was HIs Wife (about R. Akiva's wife and times of Rabbi Akiva) by Tabak Excellent book. oldie but goodie On Saturday, August 30, 2025 at 10:50:56 PM EDT, London, Shira via Hasafran <hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: Hi everyone, One of our 11th grade Bible teachers (Modern Orthodox day school) is looking for a book to assign as long-term reading, maybe involving biblical personalities. I thought of Rabbi Steinsaltz’s book “Biblical Images” Hi everyone, One of our 11th grade Bible teachers (Modern Orthodox day school) is looking for a book to assign as long-term reading, maybe involving biblical personalities. I thought of Rabbi Steinsaltz’s book “Biblical Images” but I don’t think that is what he has in mind…I was thinking about Rabbi Yosef Deutsch’s books, but his seem to center around the holidays (except for the one about Avraham). Any other ideas anyone has would be welcome! Thank you! Shira London Director of Library and Information Resources Upper School Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3300 Old Court Road • Baltimore, Maryland 21208 410-413-2414 slon...@btfiloh.org BethTfiloh.com Learning Together. For Life. __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.osu.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!zgFIFGolvkMTK-Rbp9DdW9JlSKGPlFXktRjYVqRXH8n_MsI2zk6pMUkZXH2t4Yan6ZHNCr1cY9mLRI8tsnLltnKLZQtjF0R9$ Earlier Listserver: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!zgFIFGolvkMTK-Rbp9DdW9JlSKGPlFXktRjYVqRXH8n_MsI2zk6pMUkZXH2t4Yan6ZHNCr1cY9mLRI8tsnLltnKLZQtjF0R9$ AJL HomePage https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.JewishLibraries.org__;!!KGKeukY!zgFIFGolvkMTK-Rbp9DdW9JlSKGPlFXktRjYVqRXH8n_MsI2zk6pMUkZXH2t4Yan6ZHNCr1cY9mLRI8tsnLltnKLZZFvHzM3$ -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
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