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    It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz's Story of Hope
    It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz's Story of Hope
    It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz's Story of Hope
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    It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz's Story of Hope

    By Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet, Hope Anita Smith and Lea Lyon

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    A powerful middle grade novel-in-verse about one boy’s experience surviving the Holocaust.

    Moishe Moskowitz was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family learned the language of fear. The wolves loomed at every corner, yet Moishe still held on to the blessings of his mother’s blueberry pierogis, of celebrating the Sabbath as a family, of a loyal friend. But each day the darkness weighed more heavily on Moishe as his family was broken, uprooted, and scattered across labor and concentration camps. Just as his last hopes began to dim, a simple act of kindness redeemed his faith that goodness could survive the trials of war: That was the day it rained warm bread.

    Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet relates her father’s triumphant Holocaust story through the words of award-winning poet Hope Anita Smith. Deftly articulated and beautifully illustrated by Lea Lyon, this is an essential addition to the ever-important collection of Holocaust testimonies.

    Christy Ottaviano Books

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 13, 2019
    ISBN9781250165732
    It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz's Story of Hope
    Author

    Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet

    Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet is the daughter of holocaust survivor Moishe Moskowitz. Her stories inspired the children's book It Rained Warm Bread.

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    • 4/5
      This book, like most books that highlight the horrors of the holocaust, is chilling and eye opening, but also inspires hope. I would have children read this to learn about history, certainly. But I would also love them to understand that there is always hope for good, as is illustrated in our main character, who endured pain beyond what we can imagine.
    • 3/5
      Poems tell the true story of Moishe Moskowitz’s family as the Nazis invaded Poland and rounded up the Jews. While enduring unimaginable loss, tragedy and torture, Moishe held on to any glimmer of hope he could find. Unadorned prose reflects the family’s simple life of love and togetherness; later, it serves as a contrast to the horrors, and as a protective response.

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    It Rained Warm Bread - Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet

    CHAPTER 1

    IT MATTERS

    1936

    IT MATTERS

    It matters

    which side of the street

    I walk on to get home.

    There is their side,

    and the safe side,

    the only side that gets me home

    the same way my mother sent me out.

    It matters

    that my eyes are watching,

    scanning the neighborhood for

    thirsty Polish boys,

    who drink Jews like water,

    wanting

    to pound me like schnitzel.

    It matters

    that I have learned the politics

    of life.

    Know enough to find two Goliaths

    to protect me.

    My contribution:

    homework assignments worthy of a good grade.

    My teacher gives us an exercise.

    "Write something that has meaning.

    Use your shovel.

    Dig deep."

    I want to say something important.

    Something that will last.

    Something that says I was here.

    I write my name.

    Moishe Moskowitz.

    I matter.

    SMALL WORLD

    Our world is small.

    Our life is simple.

    We live in the house

    my father got as a wedding gift

    from my mother’s parents.

    There are two rooms

    and five of us.

    My brother and I sleep with our father

    and my sister shares a bed with our mother.

    I go to two schools,

    public school and Hebrew school.

    I walk one hour each way,

    my legs are able.

    I speak two languages,

    Polish and Yiddish.

    My mother stays home

    washing, cleaning, cooking.

    I bring in water

    and chop wood to heat our house.

    I am a good son.

    My sister, Bella,

    is like her name.

    She is beautiful.

    She has our mother’s face.

    My brother, Saul,

    is too old for games.

    He sits with the men

    rocking and chanting prayers.

    My father travels.

    He is gone most of the week.

    It takes many days to buy a cow.

    He makes sure to be home for the Sabbath.

    My mother and Bella light the candles.

    Together we say prayers,

    thanking the Master of the Universe

    for our small world

    and our simple life.

    NOT SO BAD

    We live in Poland,

    a country that has no use for us.

    A country that bullies its

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