Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 36 Jewish Childhood in Eastern Europe

by Aleksiun, Natalia; Guesnet, François; Polonsky, Antony

• ISBN13: 9781802070347
• ISBN10: 1802070346
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-03-15
• Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press

Author Biography

Natalia Aleksiun is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, New York. 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 and chair of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies. His publications include 'Chanukah and its Function in the Invention of a Jewish-Heroic Tradition in Early Zionism' in Nationalism, Zionism and ethnic mobilisation (ed. Michael Berkowitz, 2004) and Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present, edited with Jerzy Tomaszewski (2022).

Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Education Outreach Program at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. His three-volume history the Jews in Poland and Russia (2010-12), also published by the Littman Library, was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum Prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a language other than Polish.

Table of Contents

Introduction | Natalia Aleksiun, François Guesnet, and Antony Polonsky

CONCEPTS OF CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY

Childhood in the Families of Tsadikim Gadi Sagiv Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Hebrew Autobiography and Fiction | Rotem Wagner

The 'Beautiful Manor House': Glimpses of Childhood in the Galician Countryside | Yehoshua Ecker

The Conception of the Jewish Family in Przeglad Spoleczny and Dos Kind | Sean Martin

CHANGES IN THE MEDICAL TREATMENT OF CHILDREN

Patient, Healer, Remedy: The Jewish Child in Traditional Jewish Healing around 1900 | Marek Tuszewicki

Care and Survival among Jews in Early Modern Poland | Zvi Eckstein and Anat Vaturi

Newborn The Practice of Wet-Nursing among Jews in the Tsarist Empire | Ekaterina Oleshkevich

TOZ Summer Colonies: Modern Welfare for Weak and Exhausted Jewish Children in Poland | Rakefet Zalashik

THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

What Kind of Ego Can a Pupil's Letter Reveal? The Case of the Tarbut School in Nowy Dwór | David Assaf and Yael Dar

State Schools as Polish--Jewish Contact Zones: The Case of Tarnów | Agnieszka Wierzcholska

Working Children and Young People as Seen by Contributors to Maly Przeglad | Anna Landau-Czajka

Through Their Own Eyes. Jewish Youngsters Depict Vacationing in Interwar Poland | Ula Madej-Krupitski

Autograph Books Produced by Polish Jewish Schoolgirls as Historical Documents | Natalia Aleksiun

Cecylja Klaftenowa's Vision for Jewish Orphans and Other Children in Interwar Lviv | Sarah Zarrow

CHILDREN AND TRAUMA, 1914-1945

Building Pillars of the Nation: 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

The Other Diaspora: Creating Polish Jewish Families in the Wartime Soviet Union and in Postwar Transit, 1939-1946 | Sarah Cramsey

Standing by Mothers' Graves: Voices of Soviet Jewish Children Documenting the Second World War | Anna Shternshis

Child Holocaust Survivors | Joanna Michlic

Jewish Angels or Urchins. Jewish Child Survivors in the Eyes of Adults | Boaz Cohen

CHILDHOOD IN POST-1945 POLAND

Polish Jewish Childhood in Dzierzoniów, Lower Silesia, 1945-1950 | Kamil Kijek

Growing Up in a Communist Jewish Family | Lukasz Bertram

Index

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