Re: [ha-Safran] Response to Robby, Majorie and Andrea re books on Israeli-Palestinian conflict for children and teens

[Clare Kinberg via Hasafran]

Andrea,
Someone else asked me a similar question, so I'll answer here for everyone.
My session with them was the 4th or 5th of a six week class taught by our
rabbi. He is using the Israel-Palestine for Critical Thinkers video series.
http://www.forcriticalthinkers.com/the-videos. I had sat in on their first
two sessions, so I knew that many of the students were knowledgeable, and
had been actively learning and asking questions for the last month. I had
experienced their questions as coming from a fair amount of holely
knowledge, which is why the rabbi wanted to teach this class. In our neck
of the woods here in Michigan, all of our students go to school with
Palestinians and other Muslims and Christians from the Middle East. They
are well aware of differing perspectives on the conflict.
For my session with them I divided the class of 6 students into 3 pairs.
Each pair read one of the articles I mentioned, including yours, and
reported to the whole group what they got out of it. We had a discussion
about balance and fairness. I then gave each pair 3 or 4 books, they each
looked at them by themselves, trading back and forth with their pair
partner, then had a brief discussion with their partner to see if they came
up with the same or different observations.  They then reported to the
whole group, but just on two titles. it was definitely not a thorough
examination, but they each came up with interesting observations about each
book. Mainly they got the message that they can critically look at books
for perspective, balance, fairness, etc, and that point of view when
writing about the Israeli Palestinian conflict is very important to
recognize.

Clare Kinberg, TBE Ann Arbor


On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 4:29 PM Andrea Rapp via Hasafran <
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> Clare, I am not sure I understand.  Are you saying that the students had
> read all 13 of the books you listed, including longer titles like
> Checkpoints, and Habibi?
>I also want to ask: do you feel the students were *knowledgeable*
> enough about the history and background to evaluate these books as to
> accuracy, bias, etc?
> Andrea
> PS: I went to the Reframing Israel site to print up their list of
> recommended titles that we've been discussing, and the list seems to be
> gone: "Page Can't be Found."  A number of the links are gone, actually.  If
> anyone has the list, perhaps s/he could send it to me.
>
>
>
>
> I had the students summarize each piece and then we discussed the issues
> of balance (giving equal time or space to both Palestinians and Israelis;
> fairness (trying to convey the truth of the situation); perspective (things
> look different based on where you are sitting), and bias (which aims to
> advocate for one side or another).
>
>
> I then had them evaluate the following 13 books on each of the four
> qualities. It was a good class.
>
> Bashi, Golbarg. P is for Palestine: A Palestine alphabet book. New York,
> NY, Dr. Bashi, 2017.
>
> Cohen Corasanti, Michelle. The almond tree. Reading, UK :$b$, Garnet
> Publishing, 2012.
>
> Ellis, Deborah. The cat at the wall. Toronto, Groundwood Books, 2014.
>
> Folman, Ari. Waltz with Bashir : a Lebanon war story. New York,
> Metropolitan Books, 2009.
>
> Fontes, Justine and Ron. A to Z Israel. New York, Children's Press,
> Scholastic, 2003.
>
> Glidden, Sarah. How to understand Israel in 60 days or less. New York,
> Vertigo/DC Comics, 2010.
>
> Levine, Anna. Running on eggs. Chicago, Front Street/Cricket Books, 1999.
>
> Levy, Marilyn. Checkpoints. Philadelphia, PA, Jewish Publication Society,
> 2008.
>
> Lieberman, Leanne. The book of trees. Victoria, BC Custer, WA, Orca Book
> Publishers, 2010.
>
> Nye, Naomi Shihab. Habibi : Naomi Shihab Nye. New York, Simon & Schuster
> Books for Young Readers, 1997.
>
> Nye, Naomi Shihab. Sitti's secrets. New York Toronto New York, Four Winds
> Press Maxwell Macmillan Canada Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994.
>
> Williams, Emma. The story of Hurry. New York, Seven Stories Press, 2014.
>
> On opposite sides : inside the same frame : Israelis and Palestinians
> voice their hopes and concerns about the peace process : a photographic
> essay by Americans for Peace Now /. Beverly Hills, CA, 2005.
>
>
>
> Clare Kinberg, Temple Beth Emeth Ann Arbor
>
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[ha-Safran] Curator of Judaica U of MIchigan

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[ha-Safran] Entire library of Jewish children's books in very good condition

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Hi Hasafran,

Recently a Reform congregation closed and donated to my library at Temple
Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor over 200 Jewish children's books. I've been going
through them and it is an excellent, up to date collection. My library is
also excellent and up to date. I could keep these books, but most of them
would be 2nd or 3rd copies for us. Is there anyone out there that needs an
instant Jewish children's library?
Write me offlist at ckinb...@gmail.com.

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Re: [ha-Safran] Books on the Israel-Palestinian conflict

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"Balanced" books may be hard to find, but books from different perspectives
that invite discussion are available. Here's a beginning list:
http://reframingisrael.org/2015/02/literature/


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> Hello,
> A friend asked if there were some balanced books on the
> Israeli-Palestinian conflict for school age children. I am drawing a blank
> except for the Lynn Reid Banks’ books, One More River and Broken Bridge. Do
> others  have suggestions or is there something in the Bibliography Bank?
>
> Thank you and hag sameach
> Dina Yanners
>
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[ha-Safran] New haggadah for families with young kids

[Clare Kinberg via Hasafran]

Hi all,

I'm writing to recommend a new book by an author local to me in Ann Arbor.
I think it is beautiful and quite well done.
In *Haggadah Regatta*, two kids and a crew of shoes sail the Haggadah
Regatta under a Matzah Ball Moon. Everyone on the little matzah raft gets
into the act in this playful Passover Haggadah. The seder will engage even
the youngest members of the tribe. There are goat tracks to follow and wine
drops to plink. The read-aloud gathers steam as the crew asks
again-and-again, “Who is?” Readers take turns, telling “how” and “why”. A
Phonetics User Guide helps say the words in Hebrew.

https://carollevin.us/haggadah-regatta/


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[ha-Safran] minutes from meetings of the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, early 20th cnetury

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Hi all,
When I was in school (Wayne State U) for my MLIS  (2008-2011), I came
across a resource that had the minutes from the Cleveland Jewish Orphan
Asylum. I found a note in the minutes that referred to my great aunt, Mary
Kinberg. She was born in 1897, her mother died in childbirth and she was
placed in the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum and was released from the home
when she was about 10 to her father who had remarried (according to the
note I found in the minutes of a meeting). I cannot seem to find this
resource anymore. By this resource, I mean the transcription of the minutes
of the meetings of the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum. Perhaps they were in
something I only had access to while I was in school. Any ideas?

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[ha-Safran] New children's book

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Hi,
Aviva Brown's biracial family wasn't reflected in Jewish children's books,
so she wrote a book to change that

https://www.greensboro.com/life/faith_and_values/her-biracial-family-wasn-t-reflected-in-jewish-children-s/article_21541ccb-c03f-5552-9145-95e0e118b263.html?


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[ha-Safran] Family picture books for discussing anti-Semitism

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Hi all,
Our congregation is thinking about a family program for parents to discuss
how to talk about anti-Semitism to young kids. I'm looking for picture
books that might be helpful to the parents. Any suggestions?

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[ha-Safran] Picture books to help parents talk about anti-Semitism with their children

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Hi everyone,
Thank you for the suggestions that came in.
Based on the "Jewish Values Finder," Amazon search, my own brainstorming,
and combing through our library holdings, I came up with the following 15
books to offer to our rabbi to think about for his presentation to parents.
He specifically wanted included books not directly about anti-Semitism, but
which could lead to the discussion with children. I'll let you know the
feedback I get. All of the books below are in our Temple library.
Clare Kinberg, Temple Beth Emeth, Ann Arbor.

YPH HER
Herron, Carolivia. Always an Olivia : a remarkable family history.
Minneapolis, Kar-Ben Pub, 2007.

YS MIC
Michelson, Richard. As good as anybody : Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham
Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom. New York, A.A. Knopf, 2008.

YCH COH
Cohn, Janice. The Christmas menorahs : how a town fought hate. Morton
Grove, Ill, A. Whitman, 1995.

YPH OCO
O'Connor, Maureen. Equal rights. New York, Franklin Watts, 1998.

YHF RUE
Ruelle, Karen Gray. The grand mosque of Paris : a story of how Muslims
saved Jews during the Holocaust. New York, Holiday House, 2008.

YB JAG
Levy, Debbie. The key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and her music. Minneapolis,
Kar-Ben Publishing, 2019.

YCH NAL
Naliboff, Jane. The only one club. Brooklyn, NY, Flashlight Press, 2004.

YS MUH
Muhammad, Ibtihaj. The proudest blue: a story of hijab and family. New York
Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

YPH PIN NON
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Sit-in. New York, Little, Brown Books for Young
Readers, 2010.

YPH SEI
Seidman, Lauren. What makes someone a Jew?. Woodstock, VT, Jewish Lights
Pub, 2007.

YS MEN
Mendez, Yamile Saied. Where are you from?. New York, NY, HarperCollins,
2019.

YH ELV
Elvgren, Jennifer Riesmeyer. The whispering town. Minneapolis, MN, Kar-Ben
Publishing, 2014.

YHF LIT
Littlesugar, Amy. Willy and Max : a Holocaust story. New York, N.Y,
Philomel Books, 2006.

YHF DEE
Deedy, Carmen Agra. The yellow star : the legend of King Christian X of
Denmark. Atlanta, Ga, Peachtree, 2000.

YB KOU
Winter, Jonah. You never heard of Sandy Koufax?!. New York, N.Y, Schwartz &
Wade Books, 2009.
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[ha-Safran] press on Sydney Taylor and AJL Fiction Awards

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Hi Hasafran,

Please see page 29:  https://washtenawjewishnews.org/PDFs/WJN-03-20-web.pdf

Thanks to everyone on the committees for their work.


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Re: [ha-Safran] question about popular adult book _A Woman is No Man_ (prompted by middle grade book postings)

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Jonina, et all,
I haven't read Etaf Rum's book, but your query raises a similar response
from me as the question regarding middle school books on Israel/Palestine,
which is that the subjective experience of Jews and Palestinians in the
region over the  past 100 years has been so different as to be nearly
incomprehensible and unbearable to the other. I hope you will change your
mind and finish reading Etaf Rum's book.
I couldn't have understood, nor born, the sentence that stopped you cold
"Israel's invasion of Palestine" without having read two things that I hope
others among us will read. One is
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the
Palestinian Century by Adina Hoffman, a biography of the poet Taha Muhammad
Ali who was 16 and living in Saffuriya a village in the Nazareth area in
1948. One thread of the book is Hoffman's investigation of Taha's claim
that the IDF dropped bombs hear his village in July 1948, resulting in the
villagers fleeing. Taha claimed to have seen the planes dropping the bombs.
This account of planes dropping bombs in the area was widely spoken and
believed by Palestinians, but in no accounts of the war, and vociferously
denied by all Israelis, even soldiers who were there. However, Hoffman went
into the archives of recently (recent to 2009) declassified IDF documents
that detail the 91 bombing sorties of 3 crop-dusters in early July,
military descriptions of exactly what Palestinians had recorded in oral
histories.

The second piece I think is indispensable reading to a Jewish understanding
of Etaf Rum's statement is something I only recently found in our Temple
library in the book Great Jewish Speeches. It is the March 1946 address by
Martin Buber and Judah Magnes arguing for a binational state. After reading
this speech several times, my perspective changed, though it was well-known
that if Palestine was divided and if the Jews declared a state there would
be war, some of our best minds and spiritual leaders were desperately
advocating for something else. This is well known. But what I felt changed
for me, was that I could see how, from a Palestinian perspective, the
declaration of the State of Israel was the initiation of the war, rather
than the invasion by the Arab states.

I look forward to reading Rum's book, and hearing other Jewish opinions of
it.

Clare Kinberg, Temple Beth Emeth Library, Ann Arbor




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> Has anyone done an analysis of the very popular 2019 novel _A Woman is No
> Man_- by Etaf Rum?  I am a professional book discussion facilitator (among
> other things) and for the first time declined to facilitate because I could
> not make myself read the book (and I have in fact read in order to
> facilitate plenty of both fiction and non-fiction that were awful, or whose
> premises were deceptive, or distorted the facts, etc. etc. etc.  Other
> factors contributing: a Pittsburgh native, I started to read it just after
> the Jersey City and Monsey domestic terrorist attacks; the group is the
> "private" group as in not sponsored by an institution and all of them are
> Jewish women in their seventies most of whom have known each other since
> childhood).  I was stopped on page 4 by this sentence, and just could not
> read further ...  the author is writing about Lyd and how the family's home
> was taken by occupying Israeli forces in what is implicitly by earlier
> dating 1948, what stopped me cold was " "Israel's invasion of Palestine".
> Again, the implicit dating is  1948.  (At that point, of course, the
> referents for the word "Palestine" would only have been Jewish ones.)
> Anyone have more on this one?  Similar to the wonderfully helpful posting
> Marjorie Gann just did.  Or maybe the book got better ... I don't know, for
> the first time in my long life of decades of professional facilitating and
> volunteer facilitating since 7th grade, I couldn't read a book for a book
> discussion.  Thank you in advance.  Jonina Duker
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[ha-Safran] Third Seder: An Online Yiddish Cultural Celebration

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Chag Sameakh Pesach, friends,
Wanted to make sure that all of us have this link to the wonderful
presentation: The Third Seder: An Online Cultural Celebration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLNiDXDMAVg=youtu.be=IwAR02C4pR77oBzZ0K74NGY4eoa281cHl0mtIJqQruYZYxcCSvdDnHBzheDKA


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Re: [ha-Safran] short Holocaust novel

[Clare Kinberg via Hasafran]

I suggest Adam and Thomas by Aharon Applefled
https://www.sevenstories.com/books/3978-adam-and-thomas


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> I'm looking for recommendation for a short Holocaust novel, 4-6 chapters,
> to share with 5-7th grade. Stay well and thank you! Susan Levin
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[ha-Safran] Jewish children's books on democracy and voting

[Clare Kinberg via Hasafran]

Hi Jewish librarians,

I just received a query that I'm hoping you can help me with. I am putting
together a list of books based on this query from a patron:
"I'm reaching out to see if you have any suggestions about books or other
media about Jewish people and voting - why we vote, history of Jews engaged
in voting advocacy, whatever else."

Thank you,

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[ha-Safran] Fwd: Seeking titles of Controversial Books on Arab-Israeli Conflict

[Clare Kinberg via Hasafran]

Dear Marjorie Gann,

I appreciate your close look at books for young readers about Israel and
the Palestinian people, and your invitation to comment.

In my work as librarian at Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor, I have curated a
collection of books for young Jewish people that includes diverse
Palestinian points of view and I am pleased that our library offers diverse
points of view from Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian writers that help our
young people become critical thinkers. My library includes, several books
on your list:

The Cat at the Wall (2014)

Naomi Shihab Nye:  Habibi (1997)

Golbarg Bashi: P Is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book (2018)

Leanne Lieberman, The Book of Trees (2010)

Pamela L. Laskin, Ronit & Jamil (2017)

I was surprised that you called several titles "distortions of history or
complicit in stereotyping or demonizing," specifically Tasting the Sky
(which is on my to order list), Habibi, and Ronit and Jamil. I would
appreciate seeing a list of titles from a Palestinian point of view that
you would recommend.

I'll never forget a lecture I attended by Marc Tessler, author of the
massive *A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict*, when he told the
story of a several year convening of Jewish and Palestinian historians in
which the participants never came to agreement on the facts.

Last year I taught our high schoolers a class on looking at points of view
in Jewish and Palestinian children's books on Israel/Palestine. The class
was wiser than me at the time. They pointed out that readers should not
expect books to be "fair" and "balanced," particularly when involving
difficult issues. Rather, readers should expect and be aware of bias.

I hope you understand that I am not saying the Jewish narrative we are
familiar with is false, but it leaves out the Palestinian experience. A
book including a Palestinian child whose only experience of Jews is as
fully armed soldiers may be a true reflection of a Palestinian child's
experience. It's our crucial (and even sacred) responsibility as educators
to fill out the picture, but suppressing pieces of it that are truthful
within their own sphere doesn't help children who need to deal with a
complex world when they grow up.

I also have had the experience of being asked by a public school teacher
who had assigned A LITTLE PIECE OF GROUND, to teach a class on the book.
That was a very challenging experience, as I was tempted to try to give a
lecture on the whole Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

I am very interested in hearing from others about experiences applying the
values of critical reading of these books in the public school setting.

L'shalom,

Clare Kinberg, Temple Beth Emeth Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 11:46 AM Marjorie Gann via Hasafran <
hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Hello, Safranim,
>
> I am working on a presentation -- a spinoff from a session I gave at the
> 2019 AJL Conference-- on anti-Israeli propaganda in novels and memoirs for
> children and young adults. I am concerned that some books extremely hostile
> to Israel may be in use in schools.
>
> I am aware of one school in the U.S. in which Elizabeth Laird’s *A Little
> Piece of Ground*, with its toxic anti-Israel message and its demonization
> of Israeli soldiers, has been used for class study.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else on this list might be aware of the use of
> this or other anti-Israel books in schools (or in public readings for
> children) in the U.S. or Canada. Below you’ll find my list of some of the
> titles which, following detailed analysis, I’ve found to contain factual
> errors, distortions of history, or instances of demonization and
> stereotyping of Israel or Israelis. If anyone is aware of the use of any of
> these books,  *or of public controversies surrounding the use of these or
> any other anti-Israel books*, I’d appreciate your contacting  me off-list
> at marjoriega...@gmail.com.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Marjorie Gann
>
> *Children’s and YA Novels or Memoirs which contain distortions of the
> Arab-Israeli conflict:*
>
> Elizabeth Laird:  *A Little Piece of Ground* (2003)
>
> Anne Laurel Carter:  *The Shepherd’s Granddaughter* (2008)
>
> Deborah Ellis:*Three Wishes:  Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak*
> (2004)
>
> *The Cat at the Wall* (2014)
>
> Cathryn Clinton:   *A Stone in My Hand* (2002)
>
> Michael Morpurgo:*The Kites are Flying! *(2009)
>
> Ibtisam Barakat:   “Marked for Destruction,” in several
> anthologies
>
> *Tasting the Sky: A
> Palestinian Childhood (2007)*
>
> William Sutcliffe:  *The Wall:  A Modern Fable *(2013)
>
> Randa Abdelfattah: *Where the Streets Had a Name* (2008)
>
> Naomi Shihab Nye:  *Habibi* (1997)
>
> Leila Abdelrazaq:  *Baddawi *(2015)
>
> Anthony Robinson & Annemarie Young:  *Young Palestinians Speak:  Living
> Under Occupation* 

Re: [ha-Safran] books by people of color

[Clare Kinberg via Hasafran]

Brettschneider, M., Bruder, E., & Le Roux, M. (2019). *Africana Jewish
Journeys*. M. Brettschneider, E. Bruder, & M. Le Roux (Eds.).

Brettschneider, M. (2016). *Jewish Feminism and Intersectionality*.

Brettschneider, M. (2015). *The Jewish Phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa:
The Politics of Conflicting Discourses*.
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
(Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life) Paperback –
June 5, 2018
by Marc Dollinger

 (Author)

Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi Paperback
by MaNishtana

Thoughts From A Unicorn: 100% Black. 100% Jewish. 0% Safe.
by MaNishtana

(Author)

Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit
(Historical Studies of Urban America)
by Lila Corwin Berman



The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated
America Paperback – May 1, 2018
by Richard Rothstein


*Arena, John. Driven from New Orleans: How nonprofits betray public housing
and promote privatization. U of Minnesota Press, 2012.*



*Boustan, Leah Platt. "Was postwar suburbanization “white flight”? Evidence
from the black migration." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 125.1 (2010):
417-443.*



Brodkin, Karen. *How Jews became white folks and what that says about race
in America*. Rutgers University Press, 1998.






Collins, William J., and Robert A. Margo. "The economic aftermath of the
1960s riots in American cities: Evidence from property values." *The
Journal of Economic History* 67.4 (2007): 849-883.



Diner, Hasia R. *Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World
and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way*. Yale University Press, 2015.



*Diner, Hasia R. In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks,
1915-1935. JHU Press, 1995.*



Fobanjong, John. "Local rifts over Jewish support for African Americans in
the pre-civil rights era." *Western Journal of Black Studies* 26.3 (2002):
125.



Forman, Seth. "The unbearable whiteness of being Jewish: Desegregation in
the South and the crisis of Jewish Liberalism." *American Jewish History* 85.2
(1997): 121-142.



Gordon, Jane Anna. *Why They Couldn't Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish
Conflict over Community Control in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 1967-1971*.
Psychology Press, 2001.

.

Greenberg, C. L. (2010). *Troubling the waters: Black-Jewish relations in
the American century*. Princeton University Press.



Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn. "How affirmative action fractured the Black-Jewish
alliance." *The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education* 52 (2006): 85.



Howard, Ashley M. "Then the burning began: Omaha, riots, and the growth of
black radicalism, 1966-1969." (2006).



Krugler, David F. *1919, The Year of Racial Violence*. Cambridge University
Press, 2014.



Leonard, David J. "" The little fuehrer invades Los Angeles": The emergence
of a black-Jewish coalition after World War II." *American Jewish History* 92.1
(2004): 81-102.



Maloney, Thomas N. "Degrees of inequality: The advance of black male
workers in the northern meat packing and steel industries before World War
II." *Social Science History* 19.1 (1995): 31-62.



Marantz, Steve. *Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball At
the'68 Racial Divide*. U of Nebraska Press, 2011.



McWhirter, Cameron. *Red summer: The summer of 1919 and the awakening of
Black America*. Henry Holt and Company, 2011.



Merkowitz, David J. *The segregating city: Philadelphia's Jews in the urban
crisis, 1964–1984*. University of Cincinnati, 2010.



Mihelich, Dennis N. "A Socioeconomic Portrait of Prince Hall Masonry in
Nebraska, 1900-1920." *Great Plains Quarterly *(1997): 35-47.



Mumford, Kevin. *Newark: A history of race, rights, and riots in America*.
NYU Press, 2008.



Perkiss, Abigail. *Racing the City: Intentional integration and the pursuit
of racial justice in post-World War II America*. Temple University, 2010.



Pollack, Oliver B. "Communal Self Help and Capital Formation: Omaha's
Jewish Loan Associations, 1911-1979." *American Jewish History* 78.1
(1988): 20-37.



Schultz, Debra L. *Going south: Jewish women in the civil rights movement*.
NYU Press, 2002.



*Shelton, Jon. "Against the Public: The Pittsburgh Teachers Strike of
1975–1976 and the Crisis of the Labor-Liberal Coalition." Labor: Studies in
Working-Class History of the Americas 10.2 (2013): 55-75.*



Skocpol, Theda, Ariane Liazos, and Marshall Ganz. *What a mighty power we
can be: African American fraternal groups and the struggle for racial
equality*. Princeton University Press, 2006.



Stanton, Mary. *The