From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-Of-A-Kind Family by June Cummins Yiddish Learning And Jewish artists created critical

And Jewish artists created critical portraits of name changers that lasted for decades in American Jewish culture

and stubborn women-a world whose realism is expressed alternately in the absurdity of people's behavior and in the complex consequences of their sacrifices

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2019 PROSE Award in Biography

and idiosyncrasies

From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-Of-A-Kind Family by June Cummins Yiddish Learning And Jewish artists created criticalThis is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (19041978), 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 characters. The familybased on Taylors own as a childincludes 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