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Title Children and Yiddish literature : from early modernity to post-modernity / edited by Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge and Mikhail Krutikov
Published Cambridge : Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in Yiddish ; 14
Studies in Yiddish ; 14.
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
Summary "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 number of publishing houses and periodicals in Europe and the Americas specialized in stories, novels and poems for various age groups. Prominent authors such as Yankev Glatshteyn, Der Nister, Joseph Opatoshu, Leyb Kvitko, made original contributions to the genre, while artists, such as Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky and Yisakhar Ber Rybak, also took an active part. In the Soviet Union, meanwhile, children's literature provided an opportunity to escape strong ideological pressure. Yiddish children's literature is still being produced today, both for secular and strongly Orthodox communities. This volume is a pioneering collective study not only of children's literature but of the role played by children in literature."-- Provided by publisher
Notes "Thanks are due to all the participants at this conference, and to St Hilda's College, Oxford, whch superbly hosted this event."--Acknowledgements
"The collection of articles presented here, which grew out of the 2013 Mendel Friedman conference on this topic at the University of Oxford,"--Introduction, page 3
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Children's literature, Yiddish -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Children -- Books and reading -- Congresses
Children's literature, Yiddish -- History and criticism
Children -- Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Children -- Books and reading
Children's literature, Yiddish
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Ėstraĭkh, G. (Gennadiĭ), editor
Hoge, Kerstin, 1966- editor.
Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957- editor.
Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish (2013 : St. Hilda's College)
ISBN 9781317198789
1317198786
9781315560618
1315560615