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Emi­ly Schneider

Emi­ly Schnei­der writes about lit­er­a­ture, fem­i­nism, and cul­ture for Tablet, The For­ward, The Horn Book, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions, and writes about chil­dren’s books on her blog. She has a Ph.D. in Romance Lan­guages and Literatures.

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Non­fic­tion
An Amer­i­can Girl Anthol­o­gy: Find­ing Our­selves in the Pleas­ant Com­pa­ny Universe
KC Hysmith
Jus­tine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
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The Keep­er of Stories
Caroline Kusin Pritchard; Selina Alko, illus.
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Interview

Por­tal to Passover: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Dara Horn

Emi­ly Schneider
March 17, 2025
Interview

Roots and Branch­es: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Elisa Box­er and Alian­na Rozentsveig 

Emi­ly Schneider
February 12, 2025
Essay

Bette Greene’s ​‘Sum­mer of My Ger­man Sol­dier’: Bad Fam­i­ly and an Unlike­ly Savior

Emi­ly Schneider
August 19, 2024
Essay—From the Journal

A Seder with Babar the Elephant

Emi­ly Schneider
April 22, 2024
Interview

How to Tell an Essen­tial Sto­ry: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Steve Sheinkin

Emi­ly Schneider
February 8, 2024
Essay

Still Beni: The Life of Jane Bre­skin Zalben’s Icon­ic Bear

Emi­ly Schneider
October 23, 2023
Interview

Gen­der and Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty as Part of the Recipe: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Jen­nieke Cohen

Emi­ly Schneider
February 9, 2023
Interview

Rebuild­ing a Jew­ish Past: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Chana Stiefel and Susan Gal

Emi­ly Schneider
November 4, 2022
Interview

Break­ing Down Walls: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Nan­cy Churnin

Emi­ly Schneider
May 2, 2022
Essay

Search­ing for Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in Two Judy Blume Novels

Emi­ly Schneider
February 11, 2022
Essay

Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in Three Nov­els by E.L. Konigsburg

Emi­ly Schneider
June 7, 2021
Interview

‘It’s a Sto­ry First’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Amy Hest

Emi­ly Schneider
April 12, 2021

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