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Jodi Eichler-Levine is the Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization and a professor in the department of Religion, Culture, and Society at Lehigh University, where she works at the intersection of Jewish studies and North American religions. She is the author of Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community and Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children’s Literature.