![]() "Not only are Jewish customs explained honestly and frankly, but Taylor makes them attractive and positive, drawing in her readers, both Jewish and non-Jewish," the scholar June Cummins writes. ![]() The book is noteworthy for its depiction of a joint Jewish American identity, with the characters expressing both pride in their Jewish traditions and American patriotism, following the trajectory of Taylor's own family's assimilation. Follett Award in 1951, and it won, launching Taylor's career and what would become a five-book series. But, the story goes, her husband secretly submitted the manuscript for the Charles W. While Taylor wrote All-of-a-Kind Family for her daughter, by some accounts she had no plans to publish the story. Perhaps in this way I could re-create for both of us some feeling of that other life." ![]() ![]() But the past was dead there it lived only in me. "I took my daughter Jo down to the old neighborhood where Papa, Mama and the five little girls had lived. The book's genesis was stories of her childhood that Taylor would tell her daughter, Jo. ![]()
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