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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 Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan’s Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants Norman H. Finkelstein; Vesper Stamper, illus. Fiction Trajectory Cambria Gordon Children’s Joyful Song: A Naming Story Lesléa Newman; Susan Gal, illus. Children’s What Rosa Brought Jacob Sager Weinstein; Eliza Wheeler, illus. Fiction Facing the Enemy: How a Nazi Youth Camp in America Tested a Friendship Barbara Krasner Children’s Harry and the Highwire: Houdini’s First Amazing Act Julie Carpenter; Laura Catalán, illus. Children’s One of a Kind: The Life of Sydney Taylor Richard Michelson; Sarah Green, illus. Nonfiction Unexpected Passages, 1940 – 41 Rachel Scheer Children’s Run and Hide: How Jewish Youth Escaped the Holocaust Don Brown Children’s Everybody’s Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah Linda Leopold Strauss; Tim Smart, illus. Children’s Matzah Man to the Rescue! Eric A. Kimmel; Charlie Fowkes, illus. Children’s Afikoman, Where’d You Go?: A Passover Hide-and-Seek Adventure Rebecca Gardyn Levington; Noa Kelner, illus. Nonfiction The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories Matt Reingold Fiction Artifice Sharon Cameron Children’s The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate Janice Cohn; Bill Farnsworth, illus. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 5 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
Children’s Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan’s Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants Norman H. Finkelstein; Vesper Stamper, illus.
Fiction Facing the Enemy: How a Nazi Youth Camp in America Tested a Friendship Barbara Krasner
Children’s Harry and the Highwire: Houdini’s First Amazing Act Julie Carpenter; Laura Catalán, illus.
Children’s Everybody’s Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah Linda Leopold Strauss; Tim Smart, illus.
Children’s Afikoman, Where’d You Go?: A Passover Hide-and-Seek Adventure Rebecca Gardyn Levington; Noa Kelner, illus.
Nonfiction The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories Matt Reingold
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
