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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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Non­fic­tion
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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Linda Leopold Strauss; Tim Smart, 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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Matt Rein­gold
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Sharon Cameron
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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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Adam Gid­witz
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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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Fic­tion
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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