Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature
Book • 2025
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature explores how stories and poems written for Yiddish-speaking children in the 20th century shaped new concepts of secular Jewish identity.
Miriam Udel's comprehensive study examines nearly a thousand picture books, chapter books, and anthologies, moving from Europe to the Americas.
She investigates this literary canon in relation to both the Jewish past and imagined Jewish futures, while also confronting the tragedy of the Holocaust.
The book discusses how Yiddish children’s literature promoted political ideologies from socialism to Zionism.
Udel argues that this literature was a project of Jewish cultural nationalism, influenced by both the Jewish left's utopianism and evolving Western views of children and family.
Miriam Udel's comprehensive study examines nearly a thousand picture books, chapter books, and anthologies, moving from Europe to the Americas.
She investigates this literary canon in relation to both the Jewish past and imagined Jewish futures, while also confronting the tragedy of the Holocaust.
The book discusses how Yiddish children’s literature promoted political ideologies from socialism to Zionism.
Udel argues that this literature was a project of Jewish cultural nationalism, influenced by both the Jewish left's utopianism and evolving Western views of children and family.
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