Children and Yiddish Literature - From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity

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.

List of contents

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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gennady Estraikh, Gennady Hoge Estraikh, Estraikh Gennady, Kerstin Hoge, Hoge Kerstin, Krutikov Mikhail
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2016
• EAN: 9781909662339
• ISBN: 978-1-909662-33-9
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Legenda
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Germanic & Scandinavian languages, Germanic and Scandinavian languages, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general