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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. Website Reviews Articles Children’s The Fabulous Tale of Fish & Chips Helaine Becker, Omer Hoffmann (Illustrator) Fiction Shield of the Maccabees: A Hanukkah Graphic Novel Eric A. Kimmel, Dov Smiley (Illustrator) Children’s The Three Latkes Eric Kimmel, Feronia Parker-Thomas (Illustrator) Children’s RBG’s Brave & Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone Nadine Epstein Nonfiction When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers Ken Krimstein Children’s The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America Norman H. Finkelstein Nonfiction Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust Renee Hartman with Joshua M. Greene Fiction We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This Rachel Lynn Solomon Children’s Klezmer! Kyra Teis Children’s Boy From Buchenwald Robbie Waisman, Susan McClelland Poetry 37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939 Barbara Krasner Fiction Rebel Daughter Lori Banov Kaufmann Visual Arts A Collage of Customs Mark Podwal Fiction The Woodcarver’s Daughter Yona Zeldis McDonough, Kaja Kajfez (Illustrator) Fiction Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero E. Lockhart, Manuel Preitano Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 13 Next page ›› Interview “Moments Like That”: A Conversation with Author and Illustrator Jane Breskin Zalben Emily Schneider June 24, 2019 Essay Marilyn Sachs, Forgotten Pioneer in Children’s Literature At a time when children’s literature was filled with picture-perfect families, Marilyn Sachs painted a darker, richer reality. Emily Schneider June 3, 2019 Interview A Conversation with Children’s Author Debbie Levy Emily Schneider February 25, 2019 Interview On Golems and Empathy: An Interview with Jonathan Auxier Emily Schneider February 11, 2019 Essay I Re-Read American Girl’s Rebecca Rubin Books, and They Hold Up Emily Schneider December 3, 2018 Essay—From the Journal Louisa May Alcott and the Jews of ‘Little Women’ Revisiting Louisa May Alcott’s classic 150 years afters its release, and its minor (and mildly offensive) Jewish characters. Emily Schneider November 19, 2018 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 3
Fiction Shield of the Maccabees: A Hanukkah Graphic Novel Eric A. Kimmel, Dov Smiley (Illustrator)
Children’s The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America Norman H. Finkelstein
Interview “Moments Like That”: A Conversation with Author and Illustrator Jane Breskin Zalben Emily Schneider June 24, 2019
Essay Marilyn Sachs, Forgotten Pioneer in Children’s Literature At a time when children’s literature was filled with picture-perfect families, Marilyn Sachs painted a darker, richer reality. Emily Schneider June 3, 2019
Interview On Golems and Empathy: An Interview with Jonathan Auxier Emily Schneider February 11, 2019
Essay I Re-Read American Girl’s Rebecca Rubin Books, and They Hold Up Emily Schneider December 3, 2018
Essay—From the Journal Louisa May Alcott and the Jews of ‘Little Women’ Revisiting Louisa May Alcott’s classic 150 years afters its release, and its minor (and mildly offensive) Jewish characters. Emily Schneider November 19, 2018
