We Need Israel Books

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    🕮    Like so many of you, I am devastated by the suffering and loss of life in Israel and in Gaza, inflicted by the terrorism of Hamas, so I'm interrupting our regular schedule to bring you additional content related to the war in Israel and Gaza. This conversation with Yael Levy, Chava Pinchuck, and Marjorie Gann is about the need for children's literature related to Israel and the challenges that make it hard to get that literature published. 

LEARN MORE ABOUT PUBLISHING AND ISRAEL:

• "Publishers Against the People of the Book" in The Washington Examiner
• Backstory of Once More With Chutzpah, "This moving tale about an Israel youth trip sparked outrage before it even came out" in Kveller
  
• Lists of biased books and recommended books from CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis
• Annotated Bibliography of Children's and YA Books on the Arab-Israeli Conflict Containing Significant Anti-Israel Bias, from the Association of Jewish Libraries' Bibliography Bank
  

BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY GUESTS:

• The Association of Jewish Libraries' "Love Your Neighbor" list #8: Israel
  
• books by author Matti Friedman - buy or borrow
• Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis - buy or borrow
• Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi - buy or borrow
• Natan Sharanksy: Freedom Fighter for Soviet Jews by Blake Hoena - buy or borrow
  
• Can the Whole World Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad by Richard Landes - buy or borrow
• The Miracle Seed by Martin Lemelman - buy or borrow
• Sabrina: The Girl with a Hole in Her Heart by Wendy Lewis (about Save A Child's Heart) - borrow
  
• My Israel and Me by Alice B. McGinty - buy or borrow 
• Once More with Chutzpah by Haley Neil - buy or borrow
• Not So Shy by Noa Nimrodi - buy or borrow
  
• Cry of the Giraffe by Judie Oron - borrow 
• A Feather, a Pebble, a Shell by Miri Leshem-Pelly - buy or borrow  
• Shoham's Bangle by Sarah Sassoon - buy or borrow, listen to Book of Life interview with author
  
• Yuvi's Candy Tree by Lesley Simpson - borrow, listen to Book of Life interview with author
  
• The Six-Day Hero by Tammar Stein - buy or borrow, listen to Book of Life interview with author
  
• Beni's War by Tammar Stein - buy or borrow
  
• Barefoot in the Sand by Rotem Teplow - buy or borrow
  
• Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby - buy or borrow
• The Book of Life's WorldCat list: Friendship Between Jews & Muslims
  
  
• BOOKS NOT RECOMMENDED: Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye, Tasting the Sky by Ibtisam Barakat, Amazing Women of the Middle East by Tarnowska Wafa, They Called Me a Lioness by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri
  

BOOKS & PROJECTS BY GUESTS:

• Five Thousand Years of Slavery by Marjorie Gann and Janet Willen - borrow
  
• Speak a Word for Freedom: Women Against Slavery by Marjorie Gann and Janet Willen - buy or borrow
  
• Bedtime for Maziks by Yael Levy - buy or borrow
• The Jewish Values Finder database (available only to members of the Association of Jewish Libraries), edited by Chava Pinchuck
  
• The Sydney Taylor Shmooze mock award blog, co-edited by Chava Pinchuck
  
• Augusta Baker Storytelling Experience, Heidi Rabinowitz recorded a storytime session
  

ORGANIZATIONS ACCEPTING DONATIONS:

• "Where US Jews can donate to support Israel's hospitals, troops, survivors, and more" from The Forward
  
• "How to help humanitarian efforts in Israel and Gaza" from NPR

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WAR:

• Honest Reporting: Exposing Anti-Israel Media Bias 
• FactCheck.org's Israel coverage
• On the Media's Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Israel/Gaza Edition
  
• Alma's Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Whispered In Gaza from the Center for Peace Communications 
• The Hamas Charter from Wikipedia
  
• Israel Resources for Every Age from Behrman House Publishers 
• "What This War Is About" by Yossi Klein Halevi in The Times of Israel
• "Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism" guest column by Noa Tishby in Variety
• "Why you might have lost all your Jewish friends this week and didn't even know it" on Josh Gilman's Blog
  

CREDITS:

• Produced by Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel
• Co-sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries
• Sister podcast: Nice Jewish Books
• Theme Music: The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band
• Facebook Discussion Group: Jewish Kidlit Mavens
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