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What Jewish Children’s Books Look Like in 2020
By Michal LeibowitzOver the last 30 years, books for young Jews have dropped religious and national identity and become obsessed with the Holocaust. Can they be put on a better track?
Michal Leibowitz
Michal Leibowitz is a Krauthammer fellow at the Jewish Review of Books.
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