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The State of Yiddish Children’s Literature
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In the past there were no children among Jews, only “little Jews without beards,” so neither was there any children’s literature. Boys in the traditional heder used to read Ḥumesh [The Pentateuch]…

Contributor:

Shmuel Niger

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Children, Yiddish, Education, Writing

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling
To the Readers of Literarishe monatsshriften
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Literature cannot survive, cannot develop freely and expansively, if it depends on an underdeveloped reader, if it satisfies the spiritual-aesthetic needs only of those who have no access to the…

Contributor:

Shmuel Niger, A. Vayter, Shmarye Gorelik

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Philosophy, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Exile, Writing

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy