Tag Archives: Jews

Get Sets for the Holidays!

Posted on December 1, 2019 by rosinskynatalie

Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa—whichever winter holidays you celebrate, sets of graphic books make great, generous gifts for young readers. Tweens in particular can take delight this holiday season not only in some sets already packaged by publishers but also … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, memoir, war | Tagged "Choose Kind" movement, "Never Again", 365 Days: Mr. Browne's Precepts, Andrew Donkin, Aphrodite, Athena, Augie & Me: Three Wonder Tales, Baby Mouse, Byron Eggenschwiler, child separation, Christmas, Drama, Eoin Colfer, France, genocide, George O'Connor, Ghosts, Giovanni Rigano, graphic novel sets, Greek gods, Greek myths, Guts, Hades, Hanukkah, Hera, Hey KIddo: How I Lost My Mother Found My Father and Dealt with Family Addiction, holiday gifts, Holocaust, Illegal, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jennifer L. Holm, Jerry Kraft, Jews, Kevin Czap, Kwanzaa, Kyo Maclear, Matthew Holm, middle school, Nazis, New Kid, Olympians series, Operatic, polio-survivor, Poseidon, R.P. Palacio, Raina Telgemeier, religion, Rick Riordan, sisters, Smile, Sunny Rolls the Dice, Sunny Side Up, Tales from the Locker, today's refugees, tweens, White Bird: A Wonder Story, winter holidays, Winter Solstice, Wonder, World War II, Zeus | Leave a comment

In the Footsteps of Anne Frank

Posted on June 1, 2019 by rosinskynatalie

They were the hardest sets of stairs to climb. Last month in Amsterdam, I visited the Anne Frank House , since 1979 a museum commemorating that famous young victim of the Holocaust. Through the diary she left (and its later incarnations as … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, graphic novels, memoir | Tagged Amsterdam, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Fonds, Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, Anne Frank: The Collected Works, Ari Folman, concentration camps, David Polonsky, Dutch collaborators, Dutch rescuers, Elie Wiesel, Holocaust, Jews, Margot Frank, Nazis, Otto Frank, The Anne Frank House, The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of Anne Frank, the Secret Annex, Where is Anne Frank? | Leave a comment

Following Aaron Copeland’s Dream

Posted on July 10, 2016 by rosinskynatalie

What would composer Aaron Copeland have made of the Jewish Film Festival in Bozeman, Montana, now in its second season? The Jewish, Brooklyn-born and raised Copeland (1900 – 1990) made notable use of his klezmer-infused, cityscape youth in many musical … Continue reading →

Posted in articles | Tagged Aaron Copeland, agnostic, American West, Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid Suite, Black Feet, Bozeman, Brooklyn, composer, cowboys, Crow, film score, Gene Pitney, international students, Japanese flutes, Jewish Film Festival, Jews, John Ford, klezmer music, Montana, Montana State University, Northern Paiute, Of Mice and Men, ouds, Rodeo, Sarah Winnemucca, Sarah Winnemucca: Scout Activist and Teacher, sitars, Spur Award, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Red Pony, Western Writers of America | Leave a comment

Diversity: The December Dilemma and Beyond

Posted on December 3, 2015 by rosinskynatalie

The month of December has long foregrounded issues of diversity in multicultural countries. As Christmas approaches in predominantly Christian countries, how do we acknowledge the presence and holidays of other religious groups? Some non-Christian parents even call the problems raised … Continue reading →

Posted in comics, graphic novels, picture books, Uncategorized | Tagged A Fine Dessert, Adrian Alphonsa, Adrian Wallace, Akiko Shimojima, Amazing Spiderman, Barry Deutsch, Beautiful Yetta's Hanukkah Kitten, Beautiful Yetta: The Yiddish Chicken, Buddhist, burqua, Chasidic Jews, Christians, Christmas, Cold Mountain: The Legend of Han Shan and Shih Te, comic books, controversy, Daniel Pinkwater, December dilemma, diversity, E.B. White, Emily Jenkins, Footnotes in Gaza, G. Willow Wilson, graphic novel, Hanukkah, Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish, Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite, hijab, historical events, holidays, Islam, Islamic terrorist attacks, Israel, Israel's independence, J.P. Seaton, Jake Richmond, Jews, Jill PInkwater, Joan Sfar, Joe Sacco, Kamala Khan, Kelly Starling Lyons, Ms. Marvel Volume 4: Last Days, Ms. Marvel: Crushed, Ms. Marvel: Generation Why, Ms. Marvel: No Normal, multicultural countries, Muslims, Na'ima B Robert, Pakistanti-American, Palestine, Paris, picture book, Ramadan, Ramadan Moon, Sean Michael Wilson, Shirin Adl, slavery, Sophie Blackhall, Spanish, superhero, Tea Cakes for Tosh, teen, terrorist recruiters, the Catastrophe, The Rabbi's Cat, ultra-Orthodox, Yiddish, Zen Buddhism | Leave a comment

Refugees: Haunting Thoughts at Halloween

Posted on October 2, 2015 by rosinskynatalie

Nowadays, Halloween is a time for kids to play at being scared or scary. Wearing fierce masks or dressing up as superheroes, children reassure themselves that monsters do not exist and that they themselves can be powerful. There is really … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels | Tagged "The Unwanted", A Game of Swallows, Alexis Siegel, Annemarie Young, Anthony Robinson, atheism, Chechnya, child refugees, Congo, elementary school, France, Gervelie's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Greg Salsado, Halloween, Hamzat's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust, Hungary, I Remember Beirut, Iraq, Jews, Joe Sacco, June Allan, Kurdish, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Loic Dauvillier, loss of faith, Malta, Marc Brown, Marc Lizano, Meltem's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Mildred Batchelder Award, Miriam Katin, Mohammed's Journey: A Refugee Diary, R.L. Stine, refugees, Seeking Refuge, Soviet, Sydney Taylor Book Award, The Little Shop of Monsters, Turkey, We Are On Our Own, World War II, Zeina Abirached | Leave a comment

Jews, Muslims, Christians: The Rabbi’s Cat Speaks

Posted on February 1, 2015 by rosinskynatalie

A skinny, big-eyed cat stands out among the responses cartoonists world-wide drew to last month’s terrorist attacks on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store in Paris. Sixteen people were slaughtered and others injured—all to honor those … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, Uncategorized | Tagged 1930s, A Moveable Feast, Algiers, Arabs, Askhenazi, Black Jews, Blacks, Brigitte Findakly, Cesar Award, Charlie Hebdo, Christians, Eisner Award, Ernest Hemingway, French author/illustrator, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, Herge, Instagram, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Islam, Islamic extremists, Islamic terrorists, Jewish, Jews, Joann Sfar, Little Vampire, Little Vampire Goes to School, Mohammed, Muslims, Paris, Pascin, racism, Sardine graphic novels, Sephardic, Soviet Russia, sub-Saharan Africa, terrorism, The Professor's Daughter, The Rabbi's Cat, The Rabbi's Cat 2, The Rabbi's Cat film, Tintin | Leave a comment

Esther Abrahams: From Convict to ‘First Lady’

Posted on July 12, 2014 by rosinskynatalie

Last February in Australia, an 1823 portrait in Sydney’s Jewish Museum riveted my attention. Just a few tantalizing facts identified its dark-eyed society matron. I had to know more . . . . Her Newgate Prison jailors never imagined how … Continue reading →

Posted in articles | Tagged Australia, Esther Abrahams, February 2014, First Fleet, George Johnson, George Nichols, Jews, Newgate Prison, Or Emet Illuminator, Sir David Martin, Sydney Jewish Museum | Leave a comment

War-Torn Pages Ripped from History

Posted on August 20, 2013 by natalierosinsky

World War II is making headlines again. A 94-year-old man, living just a few miles from me here in Minnesota, has been revealed as a probable war criminal. Michael Karkoc was an officer in two Nazi-led Ukrainian military units. He … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, war | Tagged 1900s, author's note, Bao, betrayal, Boxer Rebellion, Boxers, Boxers & Saints, canonized, Carla Jablonski, Catholic, China, Christianity, Christians, comics, comix, conversion, Defiance, faith, family, fighters, First Second, France, freedom, French occupation, French Resistance, Gene Luen Yang, Germans, Germany, graphic novels, Hilary Sycamore, introduction, Jewish, Jews, Joan of Arc, Leland Purvis, loyalty, martyr, Michael Karkoc, missionaries, Muslim Uighars, Natalie M. Rosinsky, Nazi, occupation, Red Lantern brigade, religion, religious, resistance, Saints, soldiers, Tessier, toons, Ukraine, Vibiana, Victory, war, warriors, World War II | Leave a comment

Being Different: Artists and Other Outsiders

Posted on June 4, 2013 by natalierosinsky

I am celebrating! Last month, the state of Minnesota legalized same-sex marriage, removing one layer of hurtful, official “difference” from our local landscape. As emotional and social landscapes continue to shift, too, we may see some changes in how graphic … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels | Tagged a + e 4EVER, Allen Say, androgynous, artists, Asher, bisexual, Booklist Great Graphic Novel, Caldecott, cartoonist, Comic Book Hall of Fame, coming of age, Drawing from Memory, Eisner Award, emotional health, Eulalie, gender, Hawkman, heterosexual, homosexual, I. Merey, immigration, Jewish, Jews, Joe Kubert, Judaism, Laura Lee Gulledge, Lethe Press, manga, National Cartoonists Society, Nazi Holocaust, outsiders, Page by Paige, Paige Turner, Poland, Polish, political prisoners, religious dissidents, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, sexuality, Sgt Rock, Tarzan, teenagers, Warsaw, Warsaw ghetto, Will & Whit, YALSA Teens' Top Ten, Yossel April 19 1943 a Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, young adults | Leave a comment

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