David Sears is best known for the many Jewish children's
books he has illustrated and written, the most recent of which is
The Lost Princess (1996), one of Rabbi Nachman's famous
mystical tales. An alumnus of Brooklyn's Darchei Noam Yeshiva
(founded by the previous Bostoner Rebbe, zt'l), he received his
grounding in Chasidic literature through the Breslev Kollel and
from teachers in Israel and the United States. Among his other
fields of interest is traditional Jewish music. In 1991, he and
Klezmer clarinetist/mandolinist Andy Statman founded Shoresh, an
archive of Jewish folk music. They have also coproduced two
commercial recordings (Songs of the Breslever Chasidim: Today
and Between Heaven and Earth). David and his wife, Shira, live
in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn.
