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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 People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice With Art Cynthia Levinson, Evan Turk (Illustrator) Children’s An Egg for Shabbat Mirik Snir, Eleyor Snir (Illustrator) Fiction Benny Feldman’s All-Star Klezmer Band Allison Marks, Wayne Marks Nonfiction We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance Deborah Hopkinson Nonfiction Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America Ruth Gruener Children’s Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued Peter Sís Children’s The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box: The Story of Video Game Inventor Ralph Baer Marcie Wessels, Beatriz Castro (illustrator) Fiction The Summer We Found the Baby Amy Hest Children’s Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi Sigal Samuel; Vali Mintzi, illus. Children’s Catherine’s War Julia Billet, Claire Fauvel (illustrator), Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator) Children’s The Magician’s Visit Barbara Diamond Goldin, adapted from a story by I. L. Peretz, Eva Sánchez Gómez(illus.) Children’s The Passover Guest Susan Kusel, Sean Rubin (illus.) Children’s Matzah Craze Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, Lauren Gallegos (illus.) Children’s Meet the Matzah Alan Silberberg Children’s Benjy’s Blanket Miguel Gouveia, Raquel Catalina (illus.) Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 15 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 The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice With Art Cynthia Levinson, Evan Turk (Illustrator)
Nonfiction We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance Deborah Hopkinson
Children’s The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box: The Story of Video Game Inventor Ralph Baer Marcie Wessels, Beatriz Castro (illustrator)
Children’s Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi Sigal Samuel; Vali Mintzi, illus.
Children’s Catherine’s War Julia Billet, Claire Fauvel (illustrator), Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)
Children’s The Magician’s Visit Barbara Diamond Goldin, adapted from a story by I. L. Peretz, Eva Sánchez Gómez(illus.)
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
