I like: Miriam Halahmy’s A Boy from Baghdad, Sarah Sassoon’s Shoham’s Bangle & Sigal Samuel’s Osnat and her Dove, all children’s books about Iraqi Jews. Michael Leventhal’s The Chocolate King & Joel Edward Stein’s Raquela’s Seder about Spanish Jews. Green Bean Books & PJ Library do lots more.
If you know kids who don't see their Jewish identity represented in the books they read - we've started a list to help. Which books are we missing? open.substack.com/pub/whojewth...
My Basmati Bat Mitzvah by Paula J. Freedman Eylan says “Yes, it’s formulaic - but it caught me out at least twice and I found myself welling up. There are a LOT of differences between me (an adult, ma...
My seven year old spent HOURS collecting conkers this weekend.
I am so glad you explained this. I thought it was a weird messaging-a-Jewish-author-about-non-kosher-meat situation.
I mean a lot of the people who signed that should know that’s absolutely not why there are only three Jews in Iraq.
Iraq. “Resistance.” Wow.
Aha! Of course you can rely on my discretion
I have just found it! I will read it. Intrigued…
I haven’t!
How is your desk so neat?!
This is so good on needing endings & changes in art & life (& on Saddam’s literary pretensions). themidpoint.substack.com/p/authentic-...
What Saddam Hussein's literary career teaches us about the perils of writing what you know...