No Small Matter

Features of Jewish Childhood

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-757730-1 (ISBN)

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For many centuries Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education. Eventually, prioritizing children became a modern Western norm, as reflected in an abundance of research in fields such as pediatric medicine, psychology, and law. In other academic fields, however, young children in particular have received less attention, perhaps because they rarely leave written documentation. The interdisciplinary symposium in this volume seeks to overcome this challenge by delving into different facets of Jewish childhood in history, literature, and film.

No Small Matter visits five continents and studies Jewish children from the 19th century through the present. It includes essays on the demographic patterns of Jewish reproduction; on the evolution of bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies; on the role children played in the project of Hebrew revival; on their immigrant experiences in the United States; on novels for young Jewish readers written in Hebrew and Yiddish; and on Jewish themes in films featuring children. Several contributions focus on children who survived the Holocaust or the children of survivors in a variety of settings ranging from Europe, North Africa, and Israel to the summer bungalow colonies of the Catskill Mountains. In addition to the symposium, this volume also features essays on a transformative Yiddish poem by a Soviet Jewish author and on the cultural legacy of Lenny Bruce.

Anat Helman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Young Tel Aviv: A Tale of Two Cities; A Coat of Many Colors: Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel; and Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s.

Symposium

No Small Matter: Features of Jewish Childhood

Paula 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)

Antisemitism and Holocaust

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

Otto Dov Kulka, German Jews in the Era of the

Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Zusatzinfo	11
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-757730-X / 019757730X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-757730-1 / 9780197577301
Zustand	Neuware