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Items with the tag:

jews of color

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Chil­dren’s
Let It Glow
Maris­sa Meyer
Joanne Levy
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Chil­dren’s
Mixed-Up Moon­cakes
Christina Matula and Erica Lyons; Tracy Subisak, illus.
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Jew­ish Text
Salt & Hon­ey: Jew­ish Teens on Fem­i­nism, Cre­ativ­i­ty, and Tradition 
Elizabeth Mandel, Emmanuelle Sippy, Maya Savin Miller, and Michele Lent Hirsch, eds.; Michelle Shapiro Abraham, contrib.
Cover of Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew
Non­fic­tion
Kosher­soul: The Faith and Food Jour­ney of an African Amer­i­can Jew
Michael W. Twitty
Recommended Reading

JBC Book­shelf: Sum­mer 2022

Simona Zaret­sky
May 16, 2022
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Non­fic­tion
Irma Stern and the Racial Para­dox of South African Mod­ern Art: Audac­i­ties of Color
LaN­i­tra M. Berger
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Chil­dren’s
The New Queen of Sheba
Rab­bi Bar­ry L. Schwartz
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Fic­tion
Not Your All-Amer­i­can Girl
Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Made­lyn Rosenberg
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Chil­dren’s
Too Far From Home
Naomi Shmuel, Avi Katz (illus.)
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Col­or­ing in the Jew­ish Expe­ri­ence: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Natasha Díaz

Michal Hoschan­der Malen
August 11, 2020
Essay

When Silence Speaks Volumes 

Mar­ra B. Gad
June 12, 2020
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Chil­dren’s
Ezra’s BIG Shab­bat Question
Aviva L. Brown, Anastasia Knavaliu (illus.)
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Non­fic­tion
The Col­or of Love: A Sto­ry of a Mixed Race Jew­ish Girl
Mar­ra B. Gad
Civ­il Rights and Race 
Essay

‘If Not Now, When?’ Mar­ra B. Gad On Writ­ing Her Story

Mar­ra B. Gad
December 23, 2019
Interview

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

Emi­ly Schneider
December 3, 2019
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