Religious-ethnic diversity in Bios
Thanks for your fantastic Biography list. As a Jewish woman of middle-east/north african heritage with Ethiopian-Isreali Jewish and Ugandan Jewish and Indian Jewish friends, I'd sure love to see more books about creative & courageous Jewish girls and women who are NOT of Northern- / Eastern-European heritage. And even more basic, why are the vast majority of your bios of jewish females strictly about/from the Holocaust?? Important and inspiring as their stories are, there is so much more to Jewish-female history than the Holocaust, and it's actually problematic to present kids with images of Jewish life and people so focused on this one period in 3000+ yrs of herstory, especially given how frightening and abhorent many of the experiences of these Holocaust surivors/heroes are. Why no Golda Meir (Russian-American-Israeli), Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bella Absug, Diane Feinstein, the Jewish-Berber queen who fought for Berber self-determination, first women rabbis, Converso Jewish womewn, etc etc etc? And on this note, why no books about Hindu, Jayne, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Bahai, etc women? We/they are/were out there!