Modern Jewish worldmaking through Yiddish children's literature / Miriam Udel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Udel, Miriam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Children's literature, Yiddish.

Physical Description:

xvi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Udel provides the most comprehensive study to date of this corpus of nearly a thousand picture books, chapter books, story and poetry collections, and anthologies. Moving geographically from Europe to the Americas and chronologically through the twentieth century, she considers this emerging canon in relation to the deep Jewish past and imagined Jewish futures before reckoning with the tragedy of the Holocaust. Udel discusses how Yiddish children's literature espoused political ideologies ranging from socialism to Zionism and constituted a project of Jewish cultural nationalism, one shaped equally by the utopianism of the Jewish left and important shifts in the Western understanding of children, childhood, and family life." -- Publisher's website.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691254371

0691254370

OCLC:

1484605389