The monstrous ziz and other fantastic birds Legends retold by Louis Ginzberg Like Noah, like Utnapishtim Dispatching birds in ancient times "If you chance upon a bird's nest, let the mother go..." Concern for animal, human, or hunter? Birds of prophetic doom Bristling, croaking and darting in the land of desolation Virginia C. Holmgren The white eagle and the crested hoopoe: Two legends about King Solomon Retold by Ellen Frankel The eagle in Jewish folkart With a closer look at the two-headed eagle on the Hodorov synagogue ceiling Ida Huberman The Birds' Head Haggadah: A medieval illuminated manuscript with a twist Free as a bird A Hebrew lesson "Eagle! Eagle over your mountains" A poem by the great Hebrew writer, Saul Tchernichovsky Commentary by Robert Alter Birds and the founding of Petah Tikvah Or: How Petah Tikvah was almost not (and the birds would have been to blame) The storks of Bociany: Life in a Polish shtetl From the novel by Chava Rosenfarb