Children and Yiddish Literature

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.

Autorentext

Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge, Krutikov Mikhail

Inhalt

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