Howard Schwartz

Missouri County: St. Louis

Genre: Fiction, Poetry, Essays, Jewish Folklore, Jewish Anthologies

Audience: Children/Adult

Published Works:

A Blessing Over Ashes, Berkeley: Tree Books, 1974; Midrashim: Collected Jewish Parables, London: The Menard Press, 1976; The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman, NY: Schocken Books, 1983; Rooms of the Soul: Collected Tales of Howard Schwartz, NY: Rossel Books, 1984; Adam's Soul: The Collected Tales of Howard Schwartz, Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1993; The Four Who Entered Paradise, Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1995

Poetry: Vessels, Greensboro: Unicorn Press, 1975; Gathering the Sparks, St. Louis: Singing Wind, 1979; Sleepwalking Beneath the Stars, Kansas City: BkMk Press, 1992

Translations: Lyrics and Laments: Selected Translations from Hebrew and Yiddish, Kansas City, BkMk Press, 1979

Books Edited: Imperial Messages: One Hundred Modern Parables, NY: Avon Books, 1976, 2ns ed., NY: Overlook Press, 1992; Voices Within the Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets (with Anthony Rudolf), NY: Avon Books and Pushcart Press, 1980; Elijah's Violin & Other Jewish Fairy Tales, NY: Harper & Row, 1983, Canada: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Ltd. British ed., London: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1987, new ed., NY and London: Oxford Univesity Press, 1994; Gates to the New City: A Treasury of Modern Jewish Tales, NY: Avon Books, 1983, 2nd ed., Northvale, NJ: Aronson Books, 1991; Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World, NY: The Free Press, 1986, paperback, NY and London: Oxford University Press, 1988; Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales fo the Supernatural, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987, paperback NY and London: Oxford Univesity Press, 1991; The Dream Assembly: Tales of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Warwick: Amity House, 1987, 2nd ed., Nevada City, CA: Gateways, 1990; The Diamond Tree: Jewish Nursery Tales from Around the World, NY: HarperCollins, 1991; The Sabbath Lion, NY: HarperCollins, 1992; Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales, NY and London: Oxford University Press, 1993; Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Tales, NY: Viking Childrne's Books, 1996; The Wonder Child & Other Jewish Fairy Tales, NY: HarperCollins, 1996;  First Harvest:  Jewish Writing in St. Louis, The Brodsky Library Press, 1997;  Ask the Bones:  Scary Stories from Around the World, NY: Viking, 1999;  A Coat for the Moon & Other Jewish Tales, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1999;  A Journey to Jerusalem & Other Jewish Tales, Jerusalem: Pitspopany Press, 2000;  The Day the Rabbi Disappeared:  Jewis Holiday Tales of Magic, NY: Viking, forthcoming 2000;  Invisible Kingdoms:  Jewish Tales of Angels, Spirits and Demons, NY: HarperCollins, 2001.

Have any works been translated into other languages? Yes

Awards:

1) First Place Award, Academy of American Poets poetry contest Washington University, 1969.
2) Poetry Fellowship of the St. Louis Arts and Humanities Commission, 1981.
3) Elijah's Violin & Other Jewish Fairy Tales was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the One Hundred Best Children's Books of 1983.
4) American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation for The Captive Soul of the Messiah, 1984. 5) American Librarian Assocation Notable for The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the World, 1991.
6) The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the World was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award for 1992 in the category of children's literature.
7) The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the World received The Sydney Taylor Book Award for 1992.
8) Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural and Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World are both Reader's Catalog Selections. The Reader's Catalog is a selection of the best 40,000 books in print.
9) Honorary Doctorate awarded by Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, 1996.
10) The Sabbath Lion was made into a cartoon feature broadcast on BBC television in 1996.
11) A play based on stories from my book Gabriel's Palace was performed throughout Britain in 1996 by The Besht Tellers, a performing company. The play was also entitled Gabriel's Palace.
12) Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories won the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Children's Literature for 1996. The prize was awarded at Hebrew Union College in New York City on December 3, 1996.
13) Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Tales won the Aesop Prize of the American Folklore Society. The prize was awarded in Washington, D.C. in February, 1997.
14) The Wonder Child & Other Jewish Fairy Tales was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the One Hundred Best Children's Books of 1996.
15) Smithsonian Magazine (Vol. 27, No. 8, November 1996) selected Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Tales as one of the Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children, 1996.
16) Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Tales received a 1997 Honor Title from the Storytelling World Awards, in the category of Story Anthologies, given by Storytelling World. The prize was awarded in Atlanta, Georgia on May 7, 1997.
17) Voices Within the Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets was selected as one of the 100 books included in 100 Essential Books for Jewish Readers, edited by Rabbi Daniel B. Syme and Cindy Frenkel Kanter (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1998), pp. 29-30.
18) The Wonder Child & Other Jewish Fairy Tales won the Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award for 1998. The prize was awarded in Mamaroneck, New York on June 16, 1998.
19) Reimagining the Bible: The Storytelling of the Rabbis was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for 1999 in the category of Jewish Thought.
20) A play based on six stories from my book Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural was produced in Los Angeles, directed by Stuart Gordon. It was performed in December, 1999 and in January and February, 2000 at the Lex Theatre in Los Angeles. The play is entitled "Kabbalah: Scary Jewish Tales." 21) Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World was nominated by the Disney Adventures Book Awards as one of the five best books of 1999 in the category of Mystery/Horror.
22) A Coat for the Moon & Other Jewish Tales won the Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award for 1998.The prize was awarded in Mamaroneck, New York on June 20,2000.

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