Children and Yiddish literature : from early modernity to post-modernity / edited by Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge and Mikhail Krutikov.
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...
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Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge,
2016.
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| Series: | Studies in Yiddish ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Yiddish writing for and about children
- The Spanish Pagan Woman and Ashkenazi children reading Yiddish circa 1700
- The Sabbath Tale and Jewish cultural renewal
- Heavenly Father: portraying the family in Hasidic Yiddish children's literature
- The design of books and lives: Yiddish children's book art by artists from the Kiev Kultur-Lige
- Illustrating Yiddish children's literature: aesthetics and utopia in Lissitzky's graphics for Mani Leib's Yingl Tsingl Khvat
- Reading Soviet-Yiddish poetry for children: Der Nister's Mayselekh in ferzn 1917-39
- An end to fairy tales: the 1930s in the mayselekh of Der Nister and Leyb Kvitko
- The upside-down world of Bayn Dnyepr: Penek
- Jewish wards of the Soviet state: Fayvl Sito's These Are Us
- 'A Language Is Like a Garden': Shloyme Davidman and the Yiddish Communist School Movement in the United States
- Soviet propaganda in Illustrated Yiddish children's books: from the collections of the YIVO Library, New York.