Children and Yiddish Literature from Early Modernity to Post

Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity LEGENDA legenda, founded in 1995 by the European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford, is now a joint imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge. Titles range from medieval texts to contemporary cinema and form a widely comparative view of the modern humanities, including works on Arabic, Catalan, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish literature. An Editorial Board of distinguished academic specialists works in collaboration with leading scholarly bodies such as the Society for French Studies, the British Comparative Literature Association and the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland. MHRA The Modern Humanities Research Association (mhra) encourages and promotes advanced study and research in the field of the modern humanities, especially modern European languages and literature, including English, and also cinema. It aims to break down the barriers between scholars working in different disciplines and to maintain the unity of humanistic scholarship in the face of increasing specialization. The Association fulfils this purpose through the publication of journals, bibliographies, monographs, critical editions, and the MHRA Style Guide, and by making grants in support of research. www.mhra.org.uk ROUTLEDGE Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK Routledge is a global publisher of academic books, journals and online resources in the humanities and social sciences. Founded in 1836, it has published many of the greatest thinkers and scholars of the last hundred years, including Adorno, Einstein, Russell, Popper, Wittgenstein, Jung, Bohm, Hayek, McLuhan, Marcuse and Sartre. Today Routledge is one of the world’s leading academic publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences. It publishes thousands of books and journals each year, serving scholars, instructors, and professional communities worldwide. www.routledge.com EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman Professor Colin Davis, Royal Holloway, University of London Professor Malcolm Cook, University of Exeter (French) Professor Robin Fiddian, Wadham College, Oxford (Spanish) Professor Anne Fuchs, University of Warwick (German) Professor Paul Garner, University of Leeds (Spanish) Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex (English) Professor Marian Hobson Jeanneret, Queen Mary University of London (French) Professor Catriona Kelly, New College, Oxford (Russian) Professor Martin McLaughlin, Magdalen College, Oxford (Italian) Professor Martin Maiden, Trinity College, Oxford (Linguistics) Professor Peter Matthews, St John’s College, Cambridge (Linguistics) Dr Stephen Parkinson, Linacre College, Oxford (Portuguese) Professor Suzanne Raitt, William and Mary College, Virginia (English) Professor Ritchie Robertson, The Queen’s College, Oxford (German) Professor David Shepherd, Keele University (Russian) Professor Michael Sheringham, All Souls College, Oxford (French) Professor Alison Sinclair, Clare College, Cambridge (Spanish) Professor David Treece, King’s College London (Portuguese) Managing Editor Dr Graham Nelson 41 Wellington Square, Oxford ox1 2jf, UK www.legendabooks.com Studies in Yiddish Legenda Studies in Yiddish embrace all aspects of Yiddish culture and literature. The series regularly publishes the proceedings of the International Mendel Friedman Conferences on Yiddish Studies, which are convened every two years by the European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford. published in this series 1. Yiddish in the Contemporary World 2. The Shtetl: Image and Reality 3. Yiddish and the Left ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov 4. The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature, by Joseph Sherman 5. The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction ed. by Joseph Sherman and Ritchie Robertson 6. David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism ed. by Joseph Sherman and Gennady Estraikh 7. Yiddish in the Cold War, by Gennady Estraikh 8. Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov 9. A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952), ed. by Joseph Sherman, Gennady Estraikh, Jordan Finkin, and David Shneer 10. Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics and Art, ed. by Gennady Estraikh, Jordan Finkin, Kerstin Hoge and Mikhail Krutikov 11. Joseph Opatoshu: A Yiddish Writer between Europe and America, ed. by Sabine Koller, Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov 12. Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister, ed. by Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge and Mikhail Krutikov 13. Worlds of Yiddish Literature, ed. by Simon Neuberg and Diana Matut 14. Children and Yiddish Literature: From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity, ed. by Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge and Mikhail Krutikov 15. Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov www.legendabooks.com/series/siy Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity ❖ Edited by Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge and Mikhail Krutikov l LEGENDA Studies in Yiddish 14 Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge 2016 Published by the Modern Humanities Research Association Salisbury House, Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2LA and Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 LEGENDA is an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business ISBN 978-1-909662-33-9 (hbk) ISBN 978-1-315-56061-8 (ebk) First published 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or disseminated or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in any retrieval system, or otherwise used in any manner whatsoever without the express permission of the copyright owner. Disclaimer: Statements of fact and opinion contained in this book are those of the author and not of the editors, Routledge, or the Modern Humanities Research Association. The publisher makes no representation, express or implied, in respect of the accuracy of the material in this book and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested © Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge 2016 Printed in Great Britain Cover: 875 Design Copy-Editor: Dr Anna J. Davies CONTENTS ❖ Acknowledgements ix List of Contributors x Introduction: Yiddish Writing for and about Children 1 1 The Spanish Pagan Woman and Ashkenazi Children Reading Yiddish circa 1700 shlomo berger 9 2 The Sabbath Tale and Jewish Cultural Renewal miriam udel 20 3 Heavenly Father: Portraying the Family in Hasidic Yiddish Children’s Literature asya vaisman schulman 40 4 The Design of Books and Lives: Yiddish Children’s Book Art by Artists from the Kiev Kultur-Lige kerstin hoge 49 5 Illustrating Yiddish Children’s Literature: Aesthetics and Utopia in Lissitzky’s Graphics for Mani Leib’s Yingl Tsingl Khvat sabine koller 77 6 Reading Soviet-Yiddish Poetry for Children: Der Nister’s Mayselekh in ferzn 1917–39 daniela mantovan 93 7 An End to Fairy Tales: The 1930s in the mayselekh of Der Nister and Leyb Kvitko mikhail krutikov 111 8 The Upside-Down World of Baym Dnyepr: Penek harriet murav 123 9 Jewish Wards of the Soviet State: Fayvl Sito’s These Are Us gennady estraikh 137 10 ‘A Language Is Like a Garden’: Shloyme Davidman and the Yiddish Communist School Movement in the United States jennifer young 154 11 Soviet Propaganda in Illustrated Yiddish Children’s Books: From the Collections of the YIVO Library, New York lyudmila sholokhova 168 Index 184 This volume is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend and colleague Shlomo Berger (1953-2015) Zol er hobn a likhtikn gan-eydn ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ❖ The editors wish to thank the Mendel Friedman Fund and the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, for sponsoring the publication of this volume. We offer warm thanks to Jack and Naomi Friedman for their generous and extensive support of Yiddish studies at Oxford, which made possible the conference at which this book began to take its shape. Thanks are due to all participants at this conference, and to St Hilda’s College, Oxford, which superbly hosted the event. Copy-editing of this book was skilfully provided by Anna Davies. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the help, support and expertise of Graham Nelson, Managing Editor of Legenda Press, without whose expertise and patience this book would have been much poorer. g.e., k.h. & m.k., September 2015 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ❖ Shlomo Berger, Professor of Yiddish Studies, University of Amsterdam Gennady Estraikh, Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, New York University Kerstin Hoge, Associate Professor in German Linguistics, University of Oxford Sabine Koller, Professor of Slavic-Jewish Studies, Regensburg University Mikhail Krutikov, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Daniela Mantovan, Lecturer/Research Fellow in East European History, University of Heidelberg Harriet

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