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Fate has starring role in Holocaust-surviving illustrator’s memoir for children
By
Rich Tenorio
Acclaimed writer/illustrator Uri Shulevitz returns with autobiography ‘Chance: Escape From the Holocaust,’ filled with encounters so fantastic they could only happen in real life
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April 8, 2021, 4:56 pm
Fate has starring role in Holocaust-surviving illustrator’s memoir for children
Acclaimed writer/illustrator Uri Shulevitz returns with autobiography ‘Chance: Escape From the Holocaust,’ filled with encounters so fantastic they could only happen in real life
By
Rich Tenorio
March 21, 2021, 2:57 am
Lions read haggadahs, magical guests appear in new Passover kids’ books
Poignant moments of generosity, lighthearted humor, and interactive seder instructions with tips for guests joining remotely fill the pages of holiday stories for all ages
By
Penny Schwartz
March 10, 2021, 12:24 am
‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ author Norton Juster dies at 91
Daughter of American Jewish writer and architect says her father, who grew up reading Yiddish novels, died of complications from a recent stroke
By
Gabe Friedman
March 6, 2021, 3:48 pm
2 women, Muslim and Jew, co-write children’s book about standing up to prejudice
Even as the US struggles with seemingly insurmountable divides, Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan’s ‘A Place at the Table’ teaches that difference does not inherently mean discordance
By
Talia Liben Yarmush
January 30, 2021, 11:15 pm
World’s 1st female rabbi led a 16th century Mosul yeshiva for Kurdish Jewry
Journalist and novelist Sigal Samuel honors her Iraqi Jewish heritage with picture book about Osnat Barazani, whose life was a real-life early Yentl story set in the Middle East
By
Renee Ghert-Zand
January 29, 2021, 1:50 pm
Famed young adult author walks hours across London to surprise bar mitzvah boy
Responding to an appreciative tweet from Mossy Simonson’s father, award-winning poet Kwame Alexander shows up on family’s doorstep with signed books and best wishes for the big day
By
Renee Ghert-Zand
January 26, 2021, 8:42 am
A Passover tale and 2 coming-of-age debut novels win Jewish books for kids award
Sydney Taylor Book Awards go to stories of young boy bonding with a lonely kitten, a 7th grader learning friendship with terminally ill teen and an exploration of loss
By
Penny Schwartz
January 6, 2021, 4:07 am
Jewish feminist Beate Sirota Gordon changed women’s rights in Japan forever
A new children’s book shows how her upbringing and bit of good, old-fashioned chutzpah helped a 22-year-old woman change a country’s destiny, and then keep mum about it for decades
By
Maddy Albert
December 11, 2020, 2:15 am
New game lets you play Hanukkah goblins and shoot jelly doughnuts
Out December 10, Max Fefer’s tabletop role-playing version of classic children’s book ‘Herschel and the Hanukkah Goblins’ lets players choose their own destiny
By
Maya Mirsky
December 6, 2020, 11:59 pm
‘I am Anne Frank’ demystifies hero to make Holocaust accessible to young readers
Author Brad Meltzer says he wrote the delicate, hope-filled intro to genocide’s horrors with his own children in mind, as part of the ‘Ordinary People Change the World’ book series
By
Matt Lebovic
November 15, 2020, 10:27 pm
Ethiopian Sigd holiday marked with online events at Beit Avi Chai
Children’s book author Naomi Shmuel to speak about diversity and difference in Ethiopian community for digital celebration
By
Jessica Steinberg
November 2, 2020, 4:23 am
New collection of Yiddish kids’ stories comes out from under shadow of Holocaust
In ‘Honey on the Page,’ Atlanta scholar Miriam Udel uncovers in the YIVO archives 50 stories and poems for a young audience that had largely disappeared by the end of World War II
By
Andrew Silow-Carroll
October 20, 2020, 3:08 am
15-year-old producer is behind the box office victor ‘The War With Grandpa’
Conquering other pandemic-era releases in ticket sales since its Oct. 9 open, the film starring Robert De Niro is based on the very Jewish children’s book by Robert Kimmel Smith
By
Rich Tenorio
April 22, 2020, 1:28 pm
Dad’s Torah reading of ‘Goodnight Moon’ goes viral
Cooped up at home, New York dad Simmy Cohen does some creative parenting — and racks up 40,000 Twitter views with his Jewish spin on a children’s classic
By
Shira Hanau
April 9, 2020, 4:25 am
Meet a googly eyed gator and have a seder in space in new Passover books
Award-winning authors and illustrators transport the whole family through place and time, teaching about the beauty of the holiday — along with a few other lessons, too
By
Penny Schwartz
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