The Rabbi and the Reverend - by Audrey Ades (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This is the story of two men, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rabbi Joachim Prinz, an immigrant from Nazi Germany, with a shared belief that remaining silent in the face of injustice was wrong"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington, he did not stand alone. He was joined by Rabbi Joachim Prinz, a refugee from Nazi Germany, who also addressed the crowd. Though Rabbi Prinz and Dr. King came from very different backgrounds, they were united by a shared belief in justice. And they knew that remaining silent in the face of injustice was wrong. Together, they spoke up and fought for a better future.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Although Jim Crow in America and the Holocaust in Europe occupy different planes in the moral universe, many Jewish Americans have noted parallels between the Jewish and Black experi¬ences. Among the most prominent of these Americans during the heyday of the civil rights movement was Rabbi Joachim Prinz, the brilliant and out¬spoken German rabbi who fled Berlin for America in 1937. As rabbi of Temple B'nai Abraham in Newark, New Jersey, and later president of the American Jewish Congress, Prinz championed civil rights for American Blacks when it was an unpopular cause, even among some of his congregants. </p><p> As Hitler and his Nazi cohorts rose to power in the 1930s, Prinz bravely railed against the Nuremberg laws from his pulpit, facing repeated imprisonment by the Gestapo for his audacity. With memories of Nazi outrages fresh in his mind, he was appalled by the anti-Black prejudices he encountered in the northern United States and by out-and-out segregation in the South. As Audrey Ades explains in clear language for young readers, 'Joachim spoke out about those injustices to anyone who would listen. In Germany, he had seen what could happen when people stood by when they saw others treated unfairly.' The young Martin Luther King lived these injustices. Growing up in Atlanta, he saw how '[w]hite kids got new books. They got seats at the front of the bus, tables at restaurants, and houses in the pretty parts of town. Black kids did not.' He grew up to become a Christian minister who, like Prinz, refused to remain silent.</p> <p> Ades details the friendship that developed between Prinz and King. Prinz's supportive letters to King in prison and King's ground-breaking address to Prinz's congregation culminated in their speeches at the March on Washington in 1963. Chiara Fedele's mixed digital media paintings, some evoking black-and-white period photos, capture the seriousness of this dramatic period in American history. It's unclear why Fedele paints Prinz speaking at that historic event wearing a kippah, since photos show him bare-headed on that occasion. </p> <p> Ades' book is a timely corrective to the often strained relations between America's Jewish and Black communities. The back matter (a timeline of King's and Prinz's lives, a glossary, and suggested readings) fleshes out the history for curious adults or older readers. We need more books at a middle school and YA level that explore the extensive collaboration between Jews and Blacks in the civil rights movement. " -- <em> Marjorie Gann, retired teacher; co-author (with Janet Willen) of Five Thousand Years of Slavery and Speak a Word for Freedom: Women Against Slavery (Tundra/Penguin Random House) Toronto, Canada, AJL Newsletter</em> </p>-- "Magazine" (10/1/2021 12:00:00 AM)<br><br><p>Martin Luther King, Jr. gained inspiration that fueled his passionate and relentless work for justice and civil rights from many people, such as Mahatma Gandhi, and places, such as the segregated South where he spent his youthful years. One of his lesser-known influences was Rabbi Joachim Prinz, who both experienced and spoke out against racism in Nazi Germany. When Prinz was forced to flee to America, he was shocked to see the same kind of treatment he was fleeing being experienced by Black individuals in America. Prinz began to speak out, proclaiming that silence about injustices is the greatest threat to justice for all. This book parallels the lives of the two men as well as their shared message, eventually covering how it led them to speak together during the 1963 March on Washington. This is a short but important book that gives readers one more angle on the Civil Rights story, another venue for sharing the message of justice, a reinforcement of the vital need to speak up against wrongs, and an example of how it takes many individuals to create a movement. The subdued tones and unfinished lines of the drawings add to the seriousness and reflect the unfinished nature of the subject. Included at the end of the story is a helpful timeline, a photograph of the event, and several suggested books for further reading. Glossary. -- <em>Jolene C. DeFranco, Librarian, Lexington Creek Elementary, Missouri City, Texas, School Library Connection</em></p>-- "Journal" (7/6/2021 12:00:00 AM)<br>
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