ISBN:
9780197577325
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (327 pages)
Series Statement:
Studies in Contemporary Jewry 34
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.23089924
Keywords:
Jewish children
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Jewish children History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Visiting five continents and covering 220 years, our journey into modern Jewish childhood begins with birth and ends at the time of bar or bat mitzvah. Jewish children, their history and their images, are described by scholars from the fields of demography, history, linguistics, film studies, literature, religious studies, and psychology. Among the questions they probe are: How did Jewish children experience immigration? What did they contribute to modern ethnic and national Jewish cultures? What was their fate during times of war? In the aftermath of war, how did they go about rebuilding their lives, and how did they recollect and interpret the events of their interrupted childhood?.
Abstract:
Paula S. Fass, Introduction: Jewish Children in the 20th Century -- Uzi Rebhun, Jewish Reproduction and Children in the Modern Era -- Yael Reshef, The Role of Children in the Revival of Hebrew -- Eli Lederhendler, Children of the Great Atlantic Migration: Narratives of Young Jewish Lives -- Yael Darr, Divided Unity: Jewish Writing for Children in the United States and Palestine at the Onset of the Second World War -- Joanna Beata Michlic, Mapping the History of Child Holocaust Survivors -- Nava T. Barazani, Hide-and-Seek: The Tale of Three Girls in the Giado Concentration Camp in Libya (1942-1943) -- Amia Lieblich, The Children of Kfar Etzion: Resilience and Its Causes -- Hannah Levinsky-Koevary, Catskills Idyll: Children of Holocaust Survivors and the Bungalow Colony Experience, 1950s-1960s -- Liat Steir-Livny, Growing Up in the Shadow of the Past: Second- Generation Holocaust Survivors' Childhoods as Depicted in Israeli Documentary Films -- Nathan Abrams, Rites of Passage: Jewish Representations of Children and Childhood in Contemporary Cinema -- David Golinkin, The Transformation of the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony, 1800-2020 -- Essays -- Anna Shternshis, The Child Who Cannot Ask: The Holocaust Poetry of Moisei Teif -- Stephen J. Whitfield, The American Jewish Intelligentsia, the Claims of Humor-and the Case of Lenny Bruce -- Review Essay -- Deborah Dash Moore, Judaism and Jewishness in Histories of American Jewry -- Book Reviews (arranged by subject) -- Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein (eds.), The Holocaust and North Africa, Denis Charbit -- Havi Dreifuss (Ben-Sasson), Relations between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust: The Jewish Perspective, trans. Ora Cummings, Joshua D. Zimmerman.
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