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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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    Chil­dren’s
    One of a Kind: The Life of Syd­ney Taylor
    Richard Michelson; Sarah Green, illus.
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    Unex­pect­ed Pas­sages, 1940 – 41 
    Rachel Scheer
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    Run and Hide: How Jew­ish Youth Escaped the Holocaust
    Don Brown
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    Every­body’s Book: The Sto­ry of the Sara­je­vo Haggadah
    Linda Leopold Strauss; Tim Smart, illus.
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    Eric A. Kimmel; Charlie Fowkes, illus.
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    Afiko­man, Where’d You Go?: A Passover Hide-and-Seek Adventure
    Rebecca Gardyn Levington; Noa Kelner, illus.
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    The Comics of Asaf Hanu­ka: Telling Par­tic­u­lar and Uni­ver­sal Stories
    Matt Rein­gold
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    Fic­tion
    Arti­fice
    Sharon Cameron
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Christ­mas Meno­rahs: How a Town Fought Hate
    Janice Cohn; Bill Farnsworth, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Beau­ti­ful World
    Yael Gover; Paul Kor, illus.; Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann, trans.
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    Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II (Oper­a­tion Kinderspion) 
    Adam Gid­witz
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    Fic­tion
    Shi­ra and Esther’s Dou­ble Dream Debut
    Anna E. Jordan
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    Chil­dren’s
    Just One More Thing … and Then Bedtime
    Menahem Halberstadt; Romy Ronen, trans.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Across So Many Seas
    Ruth Behar
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    The Pome­gran­ate Gate
    Ariel Kaplan

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    Interview

    Sur­vival and Truth: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Anne Blankman

    Emi­ly Schneider
    February 10, 2021
    Essay

    Epi­dem­ic in the City: Ill­ness and Dis­abil­i­ty in Syd­ney Taylor’s More All-of-a-Kind Family

    Emi­ly Schneider
    November 2, 2020
    Essay

    The Many Voy­ages of Uri Shulevitz

    Emi­ly Schneider
    October 12, 2020
    Essay

    Won­der and Mar­vel: Women and the Art of Shavuot

    Emi­ly Schneider
    May 27, 2020
    Essay

    Fre­quen­cy Hop­ping: The Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty of Hedy Lamarr in Children’s Books

    Emi­ly Schneider
    May 25, 2020
    Essay

    Wait­ing for Eli­jah: Passover In Times of Adver­si­ty in Children’s Pic­ture Books

    Emi­ly Schneider
    April 8, 2020
    Essay

    Hid­den Hero­ine: Queen Esther in Children’s Books

    Emi­ly Schneider
    March 9, 2020
    Interview

    A Reminder for Empa­thy: A Con­ver­sa­tion with R. J. Palacio 

    Emi­ly Schneider
    February 9, 2020
    Essay

    Hanukkah as History

    Emi­ly Schneider
    December 22, 2019
    Interview

    Mir­rors and Win­dows: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Lesléa New­man on Diver­si­ty in Chil­dren’s Books 

    Emi­ly Schneider
    December 3, 2019
    Essay

    ‘It’s God’s Par­ty and Every­one’s Invited’

    Sukkot, Sim­chat Torah, and Gen­der in Two Clas­sic Children’s Books 

    Emi­ly Schneider
    October 14, 2019
    Essay

    The World is Round: Jew­ish Children’s Books Wel­come the New Year

    Emi­ly Schneider
    September 26, 2019

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