Everybody's Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah by Linda Leopold Strauss Dybbuk Translator and editor Kathryn Hellerstein

Translator and editor Kathryn Hellerstein has taken on the challenge of presenting the breadth and scope of over 50 years of Molodowsky's published Yiddish poetry

Jacob stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple

and devotion to justice saved the lives of so many Jews

paralleling changes in her own life

Everybody's Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah by Linda Leopold Strauss Dybbuk Translator and editor Kathryn HellersteinThis true story begins long ago in Spain, where a bride and groom are gifted a hand painted haggadah. It is used at many Passover seders until the Spanish Inquisition when the family escapes. The haggadah survived for centuries in different countries. Scholars declared it a treasure. To protect it from the Nazis, a curator smuggled it out of a Sarajevo museum and hid it in a village mosque. On Passover of 1995, with bombs exploding overhead, the