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OverviewChanges in childhood and children’s roles in society, and in how children participate in determining their own lives, have long been of interest to historians. Recent years have seen the emergence of new perspectives on the study of childhood, both in historical scholarship and in literary and cultural studies. Children’s experiences are now scrutinized not only as a means of examining the lives and self-representation of young individuals and their families, but also to investigate how the early experiences of individuals can shed light on larger historical questions. This volume applies both approaches in the context of Jewish eastern Europe. Historian Gershon Hundert has argued that studying the experience of children and attitudes towards coming of age offers an important corrective to the way we think of the Jewish past. This volume proves the potential of this approach in exploring many areas of historical interest. Among the topics investigated here are changes in perceptions of childhood and family, progress in the medical treatment of children, and developments in education. The work of charitable institutions is also considered, along with studies of emotion, gender history, and Polish–Jewish relations. From the First World War until after the Holocaust and the Second World War, countless children experienced traumatizing events. A special section is dedicated to their fate. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Natalia Aleksiun (University of Florida, Gainseville) , François Guesnet , Antony Polonsky (Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University (United States))Publisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Volume: 36 ISBN: 9781802070347ISBN 10: 1802070346 Pages: 504 Publication Date: 12 January 2024 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Natalia Aleksiun, François Guesnet, and Antony Polonsky 1. Childhood and Family Children and Childhood in Hasidic Courts before 1939 Gadi Sagiv Representations of Boyhood in Nineteenth-Century Hebrew Literature Roten Preger-Wagner The Beautiful Manor House: Glimpses of Jewish Childhood in the Galician Countryside Yehoshua Ecker Advocacy and Practice in CENTOS Journals Sean Martin 2. The Medical Treatment of Children The Child in Traditional Jewish Medicine around 1900 Marek Tuszewicki Newborn Care and Survival among Jews in Early Modern Poland Zvi Eckstein and Anat Vaturi Who Nursed the Jewish Babies? Wet-Nursing among Jews in the Late Russian Empire Ekaterina Oleshkevich TOZ Summer Camps: Modern Welfare for Weak and Exhausted Jewish Children in Poland, 1924–1939 Rakefet Zalashik 3. The Educational Experience What Kind of Self Can a Pupil’s Letter Reveal? The Tarbut School in Nowy Dwór, 1934–1935 David Assaf and Yael Darr State Schools as Polish–Jewish Contact Zones: The Case of Tarnów Agnieszka Wierzcholska Working Children and young People as Seen by Contributors to Mały Przegląd Anna Landau-Czajka Through Their Own Eyes: Jewish youngsters Describe Their Holidays in Interwar Poland Ula Madej-Krupitski Autograph Books of Polish Jewish Schoolgirls as Historical Documents Natalia Aleksiun From Relief to Emancipation: Cecylia Klaftenowa’s vision for Jewish Girls in Interwar Lwów Sarah Ellen Zarrow 4. Children and Trauma, 1914-1947 Zionist Care and Education for Galician Refugee Children in Austria during the First World War Jan Rybak Jewish Children Seeking Help from Catholic Institutions in Kraków during the Holocaust Joanna Sliwa It was easier with a child than without’: Creating and Caring for Polish Jewish Families in the Wartime Soviet Union, 1939–1946 Sarah A. Cramsey Voices of Soviet Jewish Children Documenting the Second World War Anna Shternshis Jewish Child Survivorsin the Aftermath of the Holocaust Joanna Michlic The Rehabilitation of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors, Poland, 1944–1947 Boaz Cohen 5. Childhood in Post-1945 Poland Beyond Post-Holocaust Trauma: Polish Jewish Childhood in Dzierżoniów, Lower Silesia, 1945–1950 Kamil Kijek Blurred Spots of Revolution: Polish Communists of Jewish Origin and Their Early Political Socialization Łukasz Bertram IndexReviewsAuthor InformationNatalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She is the co-editor, with Antony Polonsky and Brian Horowitz, of 'Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe' (2016), and has published widely on Polish Jewish issues. Among several prestigious fellowships, she has been a fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich and at the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in Vienna, and the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC. François Guesnet is Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London. He is chair of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and secretary of the European Association for Jewish Studies and has held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dartmouth College, Potsdam University, Vilnius University, and the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. He is the editor, with Jerzy Tomaszewski, of Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present (2022). Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014), and in 2011 was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), which in 2012 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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