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Title: Zohara Title Record # 2496704
Author: Peninnah Schram
Date: 1987-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Aarne-Thompson type 706, "Maiden without Hands", found in Grimm Collection.
Synopsis: A beautiful girl is molested, maimed, and left for dead by her stepfather, but saved by a jeweler who provides her with prosthetics and marries her. However, when she gives birth, her in-laws drive her and her son away. She meets the Prophet Elijah who heals her, and she becomes wealthy and respected for her wisdom, and is consulted by both her husband and his family, and by her mother and stepfather, none of whom recognize her.
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another 1987-00-00 Peninnah Schram Jason Aronson Inc. 0-87668-967-5
$30.00?$: US dollar
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508
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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