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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 An Etrog from Across the Sea Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky; Stacey Dressen McQueen, illus. Children’s Violin of Hope Ella Schwartz; Juliana Oakley, illus. Nonfiction Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance Ari Richter Nonfiction The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us Rachelle Bergstein Children’s The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout; Sammy Savos, illus. Fiction Don’t Want to Be Your Monster Deke Moulton Children’s This Is My Shabbat Chris Barash; Aviel Basil, illus. Children’s A Boy from Baghdad Miriam Halahmy Children’s Five Stories Ellen Weinstein Children’s The Apple Argument Jane Yolen; Anita Barghigiani, illus. 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 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 6 Next page ›› Essay The World is Round: Jewish Children’s Books Welcome the New Year Emily Schneider September 26, 2019 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 An Etrog from Across the Sea Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky; Stacey Dressen McQueen, illus.
Nonfiction Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance Ari Richter
Children’s The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout; Sammy Savos, illus.
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
Essay The World is Round: Jewish Children’s Books Welcome the New Year Emily Schneider September 26, 2019
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
