But God Remembered by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

At that time (and still today) I was looking for books that would help me explore spirituality and G-d with our young daughter. PLUS: A selected list of which books rated high on the Jewish scale, but lost points for no feminism, and vice versa.I first met Rabbi Sandy Sasso through her children’s books: In God’s Name and Noah’s Wife: The Story of Naamah. We've rounded up Roseanne (yes, really!), Letty Cottin Pogrebin and a whole slew of other women -authors, performers, children's book mavens- to move us beyond sugar & spice to what they've loved (or shrunk from) in the Bible, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cinderella (not Jewish) and the steamy grown-up novels they'd read on the sly. Tags: books for the 90s, Jewish feminist children's books, Kidlit, Sara N.S. Similar is But God Remembered (Jewish Lights, 1995), by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso she creates four new tales about oft-forgotten biblical women, including our own Lilith. The family’s Judaism and daughter’s special relationship with each parent continue.Įsther’s Story (Morrow Junior Books, 1996), by Dianne Wolkstein, is one of many new books of feminist midrash, with its 14- year-old Purim heroine going from orphan to queen. Who Will Make Kiddush? (UAHC Press, 1985), by Barbara Pomerantz, shows how a family doesn’t need to lose stability after the parents divorce. Mommy Never Went To Hebrew School (Kar-Ben, 1989), tells how one child learns to understand that his mommy didn’t grow up Jewish. Ima On the Bima (Kar-Ben, 1986), by Mindy Avra Portnoy, shows how some mommies are rabbis too (and some rabbis mommies), in a natural and comfortable depiction of a girl and her mother’s Jewish rituals. Once I Was a Plum Tree (Morrow, 1980), by Johanna Hurwitz, is the story of a girl who has to teach herself about her Jewish identity because her family is so assimilated. Grandma’s Soup (Kar-Ben, 1989), by Nancy Karkowsky, poignantly shows how one girl copes with the slow onset of her beloved grandmother’s mental deterioration, while emphasizing the family’s continued love. 1989), a story of one girl’s acceptance of her lesbian parents.

Newman also wrote Heather Has Two Mommies (Alyson Publications. An idiosyncratic sampler:īelinda’s Bouquet (Alyson Publications, 1991), by Leslea Newman, handles the self-image problems girls face from our culture’s pervasive pressures to starve themselves. Many of them also portray Judaism infused with feminism, with mothers as rabbis and women taking major roles in the classic biblical tales. These books tackle issues which are only now the topics of public discussion with children: senility, body image, divorce.

But God Remembered by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso