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A story about the famous professor and philosopher Martin Buber and his nine cats. Buber was active in the Zionist movement and moved to Israel after the Nazis came to power in the 1930s.
Shoham’s Bangle tells the story of a young Jewish-Iraqi girl named Shoham and her life in Baghdad with her family. Shoham details her family’s journey to Israel and her memories of Iraq.
It’s crucial for young readers to learn about life in the former Soviet Union. This touching graphic novel illustrates how the communist system suppressed Jewish identity, how brave individuals resisted the totalitarian regime, and how Americans helped defeat it.
Authors of picture books often seek to glorify their vision of moral courage. However, when an author’s vision relies on antisemitic stereotypes and inaccurate history, the resulting picture book will be offensive and even dangerous.
Children’s books aiming at even-handedness on the Arab-Israeli conflict usually fail – as novels, because they’re didactic, and as political tracts, because they’re inaccurate. This book is a case in point.
Ahed Tamimi is not a model of nonviolent resistance — what she describes as an unarmed “grassroots resistance movement” was actually quite violent — but young readers with no background knowledge about the Middle East will be easily misled by her deceptive autobiography.
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