By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA. By day, sisters Molly and Clara appear to be modern-day New Yorkers, living in an indie cinema that was once home to a Yiddish theater. At night, they transform into estries β owl-like women vampires who prey on men.
Co-author Olitzky is a former pulpit rabbi and former executive director of Big Tent Judaism, an outreach institution.
In other awards, Hanna R. The award honors unpublished manuscripts of Jewish fiction targeting ages The medieval text describes estries as witch-like creatures called who suck the blood of their victims.
Vishny lays the blame for their obscurity, along with most other Jewish magical creatures, on the systematic, antisemitic destruction of European Jewish culture, Vishny wrote.
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Earlier it won a National Jewish Book Award in the young adult category. Levy for midde-grade readers. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century.
