The Looooong Narrow Pharaoh & the Midwives Who Gave Birth to Freedom

By Phyllis Ocean Berman, Arthur Ocean Waskow and Avi Katz

The Loooong Narrow Pharaoh is Rabbi Phyllis Berman and Rabbi Arthur Waskow's delightful retelling and reinterpretation of the Exodus story, in which two brave and wise midwives resist the murderous and despotic commands of Pharaoh, and help lead the ancient exodus of the Hebrew people from slavery into freedom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Albion-Andalus Books
• Release date: Mar 22, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370225743

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The Looooong Narrow Pharaoh

& the Midwives Who

Gave Birth to Freedom

By Rabbis Phyllis Ocean Berman

& Arthur Ocean Waskow

Illustrated by Avi Katz

"The old shall be renewed,

and the new shall be made holy."

— Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook

Text Copyright © 2016 Phyllis Ocean Berman and Arthur Ocean Waskow 

Illustrations Copyright © 2016 Avi Katz

First edition. All rights reserved.

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Albion-Andalus, Inc.

P. O. Box 19852

Boulder, CO 80308

www.albionandalus.com

Design and composition by Avi Katz and Samantha Krezinski

Cover design by Daryl McCool

Cover illustration by Avi Katz

Manufactured in the United States of America

ISBN: 9781370225743

Long

looooong

ago...

Long long ago, there was a looong thin river. Along its banks there was a looong thin country. The country was ruled by a looong thin King.

He was so famous for being long and thin