Children and Yiddish literature : from early modernity to post-modernity / edited by Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge & Mikhail Krutikov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ėstraĭkh, G. (Gennadiĭ), editor.

Hoge, Kerstin, 1966- editor.

Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957- editor.

Series:

Studies in Yiddish

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature, Yiddish--History and criticism.

Children's literature, Yiddish.

Children--Books and reading.

Children.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 187 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Legenda, 2016.

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Spanish Pagan Woman and Ashkenazi Children Reading Yiddish circa 1700 / Shlomo Berger Berger, Shlomo 9

2 The Sabbath Tale and Jewish Cultural Renewal / Miriam Udel Udel, Miriam 20

3 Heavenly Father: Portraying the Family in Hasidic Yiddish Children's Literature / Asya Vaisman Schulman Schulman, Asya Vaisman 40

4 The Design of Books and Lives: Yiddish Children's Book Art by Artists from the Kiev Kultur-Lige / Kerstin Hoge Hoge, Kerstin 49

5 Illustrating Yiddish Children's Literature: Aesthetics and Utopia in Lissitzky's Graphics for Mam Leib's Yingl Tsingl Khvat / Sabine Koller Koller, Sabine 77

6 Reading Soviet-Yiddish Poetry for Children: Der Nister's Mayselekh in ferzn 1917-39 / Daniela Mantovan Mantovan, Daniela 93

7 An End to Fairy Tales: The 1930s in the mayselekh of Der Nister and Leyb Kvitko / Mikhail Krutikov Krutikov, Mikhail 111

8 The Upside-Down World of Baym Dnyepr: Penek / Harriet Mukav Mukav, Harriet 123

9 Jewish Wards of the Soviet State: Fayvl Sito's These Are Us / Gennady Estraikh Estraikh, Gennady 137

10 'A Language Is Like a Garden': Shloyme Davidman and the Yiddish Communist School Movement in the United States / Jennifer Young Young, Jennifer 154

11 Soviet Propaganda in Illustrated Yiddish Children's Books: From the Collections of the YIVO Library, New York / Lyudmila Sholokhova Sholokhova, Lyudmila 168.

ISBN:

9781909662339

190966233X

OCLC:

899706622