From Sarah to Sydney : : The Woman Behind All-Of-A-Kind Family
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Machine generated contents note: One. Family Background in the Old Country: 1880-1900 -- Two. Sarah's Childhood on the Lower East Side: 1901-1910 -- Three. Gateways to a Wider World: 1910-1916 -- Four. Sarah Becomes Sydney: 1916-1920 -- Five. Romance and the New Woman: 1920-1923 -- Six. Political Awakening and Contentious Courtship: 1923-1925 -- Seven. Performance at Home and on Stage: 1925-1935 -- Eight. Progressive Motherhood: 1935-1950 -- Nine. Camp Cejwin: 1942-1960 -- Ten. Award-Winning Author: 1950-1960 -- Eleven. Personal Loss and Artistic Anxiety: 1960-1970 -- Twelve. Last Years and Legacy: 1970-1978.
This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to feature Jewish children. The family-based on Taylor's own as a child-includes five sisters, each two years apart, dressed alike by their fastidious immigrant mother so they all look the same: all-of-a-kind. The four other sisters' names were the same in the books as in their real lives; only the real-life Sarah changed hers to the boyish Sydney while she was in high school. Cummins elucidates the deep connections between the progressive Taylor's books and American Jewish experiences, arguing that Taylor was deeply influential in the development of national Jewish identity. This biography conveys the vital importance of children's books in the transmission of Jewish culture and the preservation of ethnic heritage.
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PUBLISHED
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: xi, 383 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0300243553
9780300243550
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Dunietz, Alexandra Whelan, 1961-
SUBJECTS
Taylor, Sydney, -- 1904-1978.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Children's literature, American -- History and criticism.