![]() ![]() ![]() But picture books that use animals as metaphors for human identities have not gone away. Seuss probably wasn’t referring to us specifically it might have been an allegory for the civil rights movement, or a generic vision of anti-discrimination, or a belated attempt to soften his racist legacy. There are more Jewish picture books now than there were when I was a kid, and Dr. Since I didn’t have any other books about Jews (with the excellent exceptions of Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins and The Mouse in the Matzah Factory), it makes sense that I would do the work necessary to connect the dots between the star-less Sneetches, kept out of the best beaches and hot dog parties, with my rudimentary grasp of Jewish history. ![]() I knew that Jews were a minority, given that I was always the only one in my entire class and my classmates often didn’t even know what Jews were. When I read The Sneetches as a kid, I decided that it was about anti-Semitism. ![]()
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