1st Edition

Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Children have occupied a prominent place in Yiddish literature since early modern times, but children’s literature as a genre has its beginnings in the early 20th century. Its emergence reflected the desire of Jewish intellectuals to introduce modern forms of education, and promote ideological agendas, both in Eastern Europe and in immigrant communities elsewhere. Before the Second World War, a... Read more

1 The Spanish Pagan Woman and Ashkenazi Children Reading Yiddish circa 1700



2 The Sabbath Tale and Jewish Cultural Renewal



3 Heavenly Father: Portraying the Family in Hasidic Yiddish Children’s Literature



4 The Design of Books and Lives: Yiddish Children’s Book Art by Artists from the Kiev Kultur-Lige



5 Illustrating Yiddish Children’s Literature: Aesthetics and Utopia in Lissitzky’s Graphics for Mani Leib’s Yingl Tsingl Khvat



6 Reading Soviet-Yiddish Poetry for Children: Der Nister’s Mayselekh in ferzn 1917–39



7 An End to Fairy Tales: The 1930s in the mayselekh of Der Nister and Leyb Kvitko



8 The Upside-Down World of Baym Dnyepr: Penek



9 Jewish Wards of the Soviet State: Fayvl Sito’s These Are Us



10 ‘A Language Is Like a Garden’: Shloyme Davidman and the Yiddish Communist School Movement in the United States



11 Soviet Propaganda in Illustrated Yiddish Children’s Books: From the Collections of the YIVO Library, New York

Biography

Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge, Krutikov Mikhail