No answers but found that Pew Research is also conducting kippah research https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/20/what-different-styles-of-head-coverings-say-about-israeli-jewish-men/*3famp=1__;JQ!!KGKeukY!jQoQHjuQTe6eejBPQ1U1UTk78rzsP8luB637qR0wpS2Z609JZ7o2d_MIMkoyswTQYd4CjQjjjfGTrNM$
On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 5:55 PM Martha Simpson via Hasafran < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > Hi Lisa, > > I don't have the answers to your questions, but I do have a possible > reason for why illustrators are putting kippot on characters. > With the call for more diverse books, a kippah is an easy way to indicate > that a character is Jewish. Other diverse groups have varying skin tones, > clothing, or adaptive equipment (ie: wheelchair) to represent their > ethnicity, culture, physical handicap, etc., but non-Hasidic Jews look like > most other people. A kippah is one way to distinguish male Jews. > That's my observation, but the illustrators may have their own reasons. > > Martha Simpson > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.Martha-Seif-Simpson.com__;!!KGKeukY!jQoQHjuQTe6eejBPQ1U1UTk78rzsP8luB637qR0wpS2Z609JZ7o2d_MIMkoyswTQYd4CjQjjSmbKwPI$ > > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.Martha-Seif-Simpson.com__;!!KGKeukY!nCY0WloF3cUjFHioa53YQGLFDoCHqYwepv7vBTm4HH7PKru2pu6-hBBc8I-OQ-BUYr-1Tkq-Ss858WQ$> > @MarthaSimpMLS > Facebook: Martha KidLit Author > > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 12:01 AM Lisa Silverman via Hasafran < > hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > >> Hi safranim, >> I am co-editor of the AJL children's book reviews and have noticed a >> trend but I need someone who knows more about this to comment, please. >> >> It seems that children's illustrators are putting kippot on most of the >> men and boys in Jewish-themed books, and I assume it is to make them >> acceptable to all denominations. But I find this a rather false narrative >> in many of these books. >> >> For instance, there is a lovely new picture book about Rabbi Joachim >> Prinz and how he was a civil rights activist and spoke at the March on >> Washington, but he is wearing a very visible kippah there at the Lincoln >> Memorial, and photos of him at the time do not reflect that. Here are my >> questions for anyone who can help--- and certainly one person would not >> have to answer all of them-- >> >> >> 1. Would Joachim Prinz be wearing a kippa at any time in public? >> 2. Do any Jews affiliated with the Reform or Progressive movements >> ever wear kippot in public? >> 3. Do Reform Jews wear kippot at all times in the synagogue? Do they >> have kids wear them at Hebrew school? >> 4. Would a book be too confusing to children if some men at, say, a >> sukkot gathering, wear a kippah and some do not? >> 5. Do Orthodox or more observant denominations only buy picture books >> if all the men and boys wear kippot? Or do they not buy picture books >> from >> secular publishers anyway? >> 6. 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