Project Shema

04/01/24 • 44 min

The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly)

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2024/04/project-shema.html

As you may remember, in December 2023 I participated in The Artists Against Antisemitism auction, which raised funds for Project Shema. Today we'll talk with April Powers, Vice President of Diversity Equity and Inclusion at Project Shema, to learn more about their mission and how it can help us kidlit folks.

LEARN MORE:

Transcript of interview
Project Shema
Jewbian Princess
"Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism" article by Eric K. Ward
Reading suggestions: The Source by James Michener, The Assignment by Liza Wiemer

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2024/04/project-shema.html

LEARN MORE:

Transcript of interview
Project Shema
Jewbian Princess
"Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism" article by Eric K. Ward
Reading suggestions: The Source by James Michener, The Assignment by Liza Wiemer

Previous Episode

The Miracle Seed

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-miracle-seed.html The Miracle Seed is Martin Lemelman's nonfiction graphic novel about how modern science brought the Judean date palm back to life after a thousand year extinction. We met in person at the local public library's recording studio to talk about his book, his art, and the truly amazing story of how seeds found at an archaeological dig at Masada in Israel were able to be germinated after centuries, and about the significance of the Judean date palm in Jewish history. LEARN MORE: Martin Lemelman's websites TwoCentComics.com and LemelmanArt.com The Arava Institute Graphic novel about Martin's mother: Mendel's Daughter Graphic memoir: Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyhood Book and film: The Tattooed Torah Another recent Israel-related interview: Noa Nimrodi on Not So Shy

Next Episode

Across So Many Seas, with Ruth Behar

SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2024/05/ruth-behar-on-across-so-many-seas.html

Lucky Broken Girl, Letters from Cuba, Tia Fortuna's New Home, and now, Across So Many Seas. Award winning author Ruth Behar keeps finding new ways to share her Sephardic and Ashkenazi Cuban Jewish heritage with us, and it's fresh and fascinating every time. In her latest sweeping middle grade novel, Across So Many Seas, she introduces us to four generations of a Sephardic family, from the Spanish Inquisition to modern times. Like the Ladino song woven into the story of each of the 12 year old protagonists, this book is a poignant and powerful ode to sorrow and connection and joy. LEARN MORE:

Transcript of interview
Ruth Behar's website
Playlist of music from Across So Many Seas
Educator's Guide to Across So Many Seas
Buy Across So Many Seas
Ruth's tikkun olam suggestion: The American Ladino League
Ruth's Sephardic reading recommendations: * board book Mazal Bueno by past podcast guest Sarah Aroeste * graphic novel We Are Not Strangers by Josh Tuininga * novel Kantika by Elizabeth Graver * nonfiction One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank
Ruth's documentary film Adio Kerida - rent for $3.99 on Vimeo