Golden Threads by Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha

Golden Threads

A beautifully illustrated tale of traditional crafts and communal power.Rachelle is a young girl living in Fès,...
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Author: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
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Language: English
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Golden Threads by Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha

Golden Threads

$19.95

Golden Threads

$19.95
Author: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A beautifully illustrated tale of traditional crafts and communal power.

Rachelle is a young girl living in Fès, Morocco in 1920. Surrounded by a warm community of friends, family, and craftspeople--both Jewish and Muslim--Rachelle spends her days playing with other young girls in her neighborhood, trying on her grandmother's amulets, playing jokes on a nosy photographer, and watching her parents as they spin delicate threads made of gold at their jewelry workshop each day. Life in Rachelle's neighborhood, the mellah, is busy, nourishing, and filled with magic. But rumors of a machine (or is it a monster?) coming from across the sea threaten to change the mellah and the lives of its craftspeople forever. Banding together with her grandmother, her parents, and the other jewelry makers, Rachelle and four of her friends work together to put a stop to the machine's arrival--but only time will tell if they can save the vibrant world of the mellah and its beautiful golden threads for good.

Golden Threads draws on a series of inspiring historical episodes in Fès, when Jewish and Muslim artisans organized together against the introduction of a new machine that threatened to replace their manual labor and compromise their cherished way of life. A book for both middle grade readers and for adults reading aloud to younger children, Golden Threads will take people of all ages on a journey into the multi-faith world of Morocco's craftspeople, inspiring generative conversations about art, labor, community, and technology for years to come.



Author: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Publisher: Ayin Press
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 124
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781961814219
Audience: Ages 9-12


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/2025 pg. 96

About the Author

Hagar Ophir is a multidisciplinary artist trained as a historian, stage designer, and dancer. Her work establishes history as a space to reimagine and actualize alternative possible presents, moving beyond divisions instituted between tenses, nation-states, and ideologies. Ophir often works collaboratively to create knowledge through art and education projects. Her recent projects have appeared in Berlin in two solo exhibitions, Bound with the Living The Archive Room (Diffrakt, 2024) and Recalling History Bundled with the Living (Soma Art, 2023), and in the work Letter of Demand (LABA fellow exhibition, 2023). In 2020, in collaboration with five artists and teachers, Ophir founded mitkollektiv, an intersectional arts education collective, and the art education project Reimagine Jetzt! She co-leads workshops at HKS and Bard College Berlin, and her work has been published in Revista de História da Arte, the Jerusalem Quarterly, and elsewhere. Ophir lives in Berlin.


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