![]() ![]() The artist and author is most famous for the 1958 HarperCollins “I Can Read” book Danny and the Dinosaur. Hoff was portraying Jewish women realistically and unapologetically for a general readership. There are young and innocent girls, tenement-dwelling street toughs, eligible maidens, sexy molls and buxom Bronx Jewish mothers. ![]() Hoff’s zaftig mama is everywhere in his made-in-Miami children’s books and the New Yorker cartoons he produced from 1929 to 1975-as are other archetypal female characters. But when I read the quirky stories to my sons I began to see a whole different message about gender that had escaped me in my own youth. ![]() I was a fan of his classic “I Can Read” books in my Cold War-era childhood. I love that Jewish women abound in the artwork of children’s book author and cartoonist Syd Hoff. ![]()
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