I remember this from our synagogue library as a child during the 1960s: as you say, one of the few books about Jewish kids that was not about the Holocaust. I think we had most of them.
Sadly, 20 years ago when my daughter was in Sunday school, the synagogue library STILL had very few books that were not about the Holocaust. This is probably the reason why all three copies of E.L. Konigsburg's About the B'nai Bagels were almost always out during my years as a library volunteer: it was such a novelty for the kids to read something about a suburban Jewish kid who played baseball, had tooth braces, and worried about why his best buddy wasn't so friendly anymore, instead of about the Nazis.
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I remember this from our synagogue library as a child during the 1960s: as you say, one of the few books about Jewish kids that was not about the Holocaust. I think we had most of them.
Sadly, 20 years ago when my daughter was in Sunday school, the synagogue library STILL had very few books that were not about the Holocaust. This is probably the reason why all three copies of E.L. Konigsburg's About the B'nai Bagels were almost always out during my years as a library volunteer: it was such a novelty for the kids to read something about a suburban Jewish kid who played baseball, had tooth braces, and worried about why his best buddy wasn't so friendly anymore, instead of about the Nazis.