Susan H. Dubin

Susan Dubin is the library consultant to the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center located in Temple Beth Sholom in Las Vegas, Nevada. This position led her to work with the World Federation of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors and Descendants, Generations of the Shoah International, and Association of Holocaust Organizations in organizing their international conferences. As a library consultant, she provides classes for Clark County School District teachers and students. In addition, she organizes community events that feature authors, artists, and musicians. She was named “Jewish Educator of the Year” by Jewish Nevada for 2020.

As a career teacher and librarian, Susan served as international president of the Association of Jewish Libraries. She was also on the board of the Southern California Children's Literature Council and California School Library Association. She has participated as a judge in many literary awards committees and helped to organize the Once Upon a World Award from the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance. Susan received the Fanny Goldstein award from the Association of Jewish Libraries for her contributions to the profession and the Dorothy Schroeder Award from AJLSC. She also was the first librarian to receive the Milken Family Foundation Distinguished Educator Award in 1998.

Working as a teacher of library skills at Valley Beth Shalom Harold M. Schulweis Day School from 1982 until 2011 led her to an interest in women in the Bible. Three published books, Kol Isha:Voice of the Woman, The Story of Esther, and The Book of Ruth Retold in Poetry are volumes of poetry based on the Bible and Midrash. She has also published A Passover Haggadah in Poems and a middle grade novel Katzele and the Silver Candlesticks. A recent publication is Jewish Stories and Poems All Around the Year.