No Steps Behind
- Author
- Heidi Rabinowitz
- Published
- Mon 24 Feb 2020
- Episode Link
- https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2020/02/no-steps-behind.html
Visit https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2020/02/no-steps-behind.html for full show notes.
No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon's Battle for Women's Rights in Japan by Jeff Gottesfeld, illustrated by Shiella Witanto, is a picture book biography about a Russian-Austrian-Jewish woman who grew up in Japan and became an architect of the country's post-WWII constitution, enshrining it with more women's rights than are in the US constitution. The author shares with us this fascinating slice of history.
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