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A Cuddly Kristallnacht

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
January 24, 2011

Parenting columnist Marjorie Ingall documents her quandary today in Tablet Magazine: A new children’s book that tells the story of Kristallnacht through the eyes of a cat (Benno is his name) has been critically acclaimed, but, to Ingall, is “so distasteful I have trouble forming coherent sentences about it.” But this isn’t just feline talk: Ingall enters a broader debate about when to introduce children to the Holocaust, and how.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.