{"id":1338,"date":"2014-10-18T06:57:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T11:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2014-10-18T06:57:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T11:57:48","slug":"cohen-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/cohen-barbara\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen, Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1341 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ph_cohen.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Cohen\" width=\"140\" height=\"187\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1342 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_seven.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Daughters and Seven Sons\" width=\"120\" height=\"204\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1343 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_purim.jpg\" alt=\"Here Come the Purim Players!\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1344 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_jacki.jpg\" alt=\"Thank You, Jackie Robinson\" width=\"120\" height=\"177\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"text10pt\"><b class=\"text10\">Barbara Cohen was born on March 15, 1932.<\/b> She grew up in New Jersey, where her mother ran a small hotel. Ms. Cohen attended Barnard College, and earned her MA from Rutgers University in 1957. While she raised her three daughters, she taught high school English, published a column, &#8220;Books and Things,&#8221; in New Jersey newspapers, and was active in civic and Jewish activities in her region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">She received the 1981 Sydney Taylor Body of Work Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries. She won two National Jewish Book Awards in 1983, for <i class=\"text10pt\">King of the Seventh Grade\u00a0<\/i>and <i>Yussel&#8217;s Prayer<\/i>, which was also an IBBY Children&#8217;s Choice Book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">She passed away at the age of 60 in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<em>Vicki Palmquist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Cohen was born on March 15, 1932. She grew up in New Jersey, where her mother ran a small hotel. Ms. Cohen attended Barnard College, and earned her MA from Rutgers University in 1957. While she raised her three daughters, she taught high school English, published a column, &#8220;Books and Things,&#8221; in New Jersey &#8230; <a title=\"Cohen, Barbara\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/cohen-barbara\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cohen, Barbara\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[322],"tags":[324,326,330,329,327,325,328,331,332],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c","tag-barbara-cohen","tag-barnard-college","tag-king-of-the-seventh-grade","tag-national-jewish-book-awards","tag-new-jersey","tag-rutgers-university","tag-sydney-taylor-award","tag-thank-you-jackie-robinson","tag-yussels-prayer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-lA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}