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From: ntoder
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 21:21:29 -0400
Hello,
I wrote the message below to Debbie Reese yesterday in reference to her objections to the Dear America title; she suggested that it be posted to the list. However, I must state that my colleague disagrees with me; she feels that the implausibilty I object to serves the educational purpose of introducing young readers to the varied aspects of a culture as a textbook might but grabs the readers through its fictional form.
Message----From: ntoder To: d-reese at uiuc.edu Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 9:41 PM Subject: your ccbc post
Hello,
I only had time to briefly read your web page and the review of the Dear America title. I am writing to express my unreserved support of your point of view
. (Additionally, your topic is of special interest to me because decades ago as a teenager from New York City I spent a summer working on the Rosebud [S.D.] reservation and in fact lived in the disused dormitory at the former boarding school.)
I am writing to tell you that apparently there are major problems with that whole series. I read the one on Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side, a topic on which I am quite knowledgeable. That one, while not rife with blatant errors of fact, is still highly implausable and ridiculous. Every known phenomenon of Jewish life at the time (union organizing in the garment trades, growth of the Yiddish theatre, a few men becoming wealthy factory owners, death in the famous Triangle Factory fire, occasional breakdown of marriages, and more) are *all* present in this one book. There is absolutely no authenticity in it in terms of what could actually have occurred within one small circle of acquaintances, and it is thus a fatuous and phony reading experience.
I am writing the above not to take away your objections but rather to support you in your view. After buying the Jewish book it seemed highly unlikely that the others would be any better and naturally we did not acquire any further titles (in addition to the ones we already had). Of course the problem is that people ignorant of a particular subject do not know when they are encountering misinformation and this whole series will mislead people unfamiliar with the various cultures being represented.
Regards. Naomi Toder
Received on Tue 04 May 1999 08:21:29 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 21:21:29 -0400
Hello,
I wrote the message below to Debbie Reese yesterday in reference to her objections to the Dear America title; she suggested that it be posted to the list. However, I must state that my colleague disagrees with me; she feels that the implausibilty I object to serves the educational purpose of introducing young readers to the varied aspects of a culture as a textbook might but grabs the readers through its fictional form.
Message----From: ntoder To: d-reese at uiuc.edu Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 9:41 PM Subject: your ccbc post
Hello,
I only had time to briefly read your web page and the review of the Dear America title. I am writing to express my unreserved support of your point of view
. (Additionally, your topic is of special interest to me because decades ago as a teenager from New York City I spent a summer working on the Rosebud [S.D.] reservation and in fact lived in the disused dormitory at the former boarding school.)
I am writing to tell you that apparently there are major problems with that whole series. I read the one on Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side, a topic on which I am quite knowledgeable. That one, while not rife with blatant errors of fact, is still highly implausable and ridiculous. Every known phenomenon of Jewish life at the time (union organizing in the garment trades, growth of the Yiddish theatre, a few men becoming wealthy factory owners, death in the famous Triangle Factory fire, occasional breakdown of marriages, and more) are *all* present in this one book. There is absolutely no authenticity in it in terms of what could actually have occurred within one small circle of acquaintances, and it is thus a fatuous and phony reading experience.
I am writing the above not to take away your objections but rather to support you in your view. After buying the Jewish book it seemed highly unlikely that the others would be any better and naturally we did not acquire any further titles (in addition to the ones we already had). Of course the problem is that people ignorant of a particular subject do not know when they are encountering misinformation and this whole series will mislead people unfamiliar with the various cultures being represented.
Regards. Naomi Toder
Received on Tue 04 May 1999 08:21:29 PM CDT
