Best Jewish books for Children and Teens: A JPS Guide

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Notes pNotesP 1. Jonathan Krasner, “A Recipe for American Jewish Integration: The Adventures of K’tonton and Hillel’s Happy Holidays,” The Lion and the Unicorn, 27, no.3 (Sept. 2003): 344–361. 2. Ibid., 345. 3. Ibid., 346. 4. Enid Davis, A Comprehensive Guide to Children’s Literature with a Jewish Theme. (New York: Schocken, 1981), 68. 5. Inabeth Miller, “American Jewish Children’s Literature: Narrow Perspectives and Mixed Messages,” Jewish Book Annual, 43 (1985–86): 92–106. 6. Penny Gold Schine, Making the Bible Modern: Children’s Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004), 95–100. 7. Jonathan Sarna, JPS: The Americanization of Jewish Culture, 1888–1988. (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1988), 24. 8. Ibid., 86. 9. Enid David, A Comprehensive Guide to Children’s Literature with a Jewish Theme. (New York: Schocken, 1981), 9–10. 10. Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. (New York: Knopf, 1976), 45. 11. Ibid., 309. 12. Dov Noy, “What Is Jewish About the Jewish Folktale?” In the Foreword to Miriam’s Tambourine by Howard Schwartz. (New York: Seth Press/Free Press, 1984). 13. Jose Patterson, Angels, Prophets, Rabbis, and Kings from the Stories of the Jewish People. (London: Peter Bedrick, 1991), 10. 14. Hasia Diner, Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 10–13. 15. Linda Leonard Lamme, Danling Fu, and Ruth McKoy Lowery, “Immigrants as Portrayed in Children’s Picture Books,” Social Studies (May/June 2004), 123–129. 16. Marcia W. Posner, “Fifty Years of Jewish Children’s Books in the Jewish Book Annual,” Jewish Book Annual 50(1992–1993): 81–98. 271 17. Lisa Silverman, “Using Picture Books to Introduce Children to the Holocaust,” The Five Owls, Volume XVI, Number 4 (2002): 38. 18. Samuel Totten, editor, Teaching Holocaust Literature (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001), 24–61. 19. Mamie Gamoran, Hillel’s Happy Holidays (Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1955 ), 121. 20. Fanny Goldstein, “The Jewish Child in Bookland,” Jewish Book Annual 5 (1946–47): 84–97. 21. Rufus Learsi, Kasriel the Watchman and Other Stories (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1925), 309. 22. Posner, “Fifty Years of Jewish Children’s Books in the Jewish Book Annual,” 81–98. 23. Ibid. 24. Ruth R. Wisse, “Forgetting Zion,” Commentary, (Oct. 2008, 2009): 30–35. 25. Sarna, JPS: The Americanization of Jewish Culture, 34. 26. Ibid., 226–227. 27. Roger Sutton, “An Interview with Russell Freedman,” Horn Book Magazine 78, no. 6 (November 2002), 695–704. Academic Search Premier, EBSCO host (accessed October 30, 2009). 28. Jonathan Krasner, editor. The American Jewish Experience, 2nd Edition (Teaneck, NJ: Holmes and Meier, 1997). Best Jewish Books for Children and Teens 272 ...