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Meskerem was born in a small town in the Golan Heights of Israel, to an Ethiopian mother and an American father. Soon after Operation Solomon, when several thousand Ethiopian immigrants were brought to Israel, Meskerem's parents decided to move to the center of the country, to the town of Herzelia. Meskerem comes face-to-face with the ignorance and prejudices of her new classmates, many of whom are meeting someone dark-skinned for the first time. With the help of her Ethiopian grandmother, who remained in Kazerin, Meskerem comes to terms with who she is and finds strength in belonging to three different cultures.
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Kar-Ben Publishing began in 1974 when friends Judye Groner and Madeline Wikler published My Very Own Haggadah, a children's seder classic.
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Kar-Ben Publishing
Kar-Ben Publishing began in 1974 when friends Judye Groner and Madeline Wikler published My Very Own Haggadah, a children's seder classic.
- Based in
- Minneapolis, MN
- Since
- 1974
- Craft
- Jewish children's books
The name joins the founders' youngest children: Madeline's daughter Karen and Judye's son Ben. From Rockville, Maryland, the pair built Kar-Ben into a home for Jewish picture books, earning the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee's Body of Work honor, before Lerner Publishing Group bought the press. It now publishes from Minneapolis and calls itself the largest publisher of exclusively Jewish-themed children's books in the world, covering holidays, life-cycle moments, folktales, Israel and Jewish history. ModernTribe carries Hanukkah and Purim picture books like Golem Loves Latkes and The Queen Who Saved Her People, the My Family Haggadah board book, and the yearly Executive Jewish Calendar.
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- Part ofLerner Publishing Group
- HonorFounders received the Sydney Taylor Book Award for Body of Work
- Known forMy Very Own Haggadah and the Sammy Spider series
