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

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Changes in childhood and childrens 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. Childrens 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 PolishJewish 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.

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  • Publication Date: 12 Jan 2024
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781802070354

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Natalia 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 Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia 3 vols. (Littman Library 201012) 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.

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