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Uri Shulevitz (1935-)
Born in Warsaw, Uri Shulevitz and his family fled from Poland in 1947, settled in Paris, and then moved to Israel in 1949. During the Sinai War in 1956, Shulevitz joined the Israeli Army and later lived at the Kibbutz Ein Gedi. In 1959 he moved to New York City, where he studied painting at Brooklyn Museum Art School and worked as an illustrator for a Hebrew children’s book publisher. In 1962, an editor at Harper & Row saw his freelance portfolio and suggested that he write a children’s book. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1969 for his illustrations of The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship. He has won three Caldecott Honors and a Golden Kite Award. Singer chose Shulevitz to illustrate two of his renowned children’s books, The Fools of Chelm and their History (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1973) and The Golem (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1982). He had a sympathetic relationship of mutual respect with Singer, with whom he shared similar memories of a Polish childhood.
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