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April 20, 2022

The Vibrant World of Haredi Children’s Culture

Orthodox equivalents of everything from Legos to Encyclopedia Brown to The Babysitters’ Club.

Having been an enthusiastic reader of the Encyclopedia Brown mysteries as a child, Andrew Silow-Carroll sometimes imagined what a Jewish version of the once-popular children’s books would be like. He recently discovered such a thing indeed exists, thanks to a collection of essays tilted Artifacts of Orthodox Childhoods, edited by the scholar Dainy Bernstein:

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