Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature by Miriam Udel non-media Learn how the Jews invented

Learn how the Jews invented Hollywood

in her community

and the true meaning of home

Before they were burned to the ground during World War II

professor of Yiddish literature at McGill University

Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature by Miriam Udel non-media Learn how the Jews inventedHow modern Yiddish childrens literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity As migration carried Yiddish to several continents during the long twentieth century, an increasingly global community of speakers and readers clung to Jewish heritage while striving to help their children make sense of their lives as Jews in the modern world. Miriam Udel traces how the stories and poems written for these Yiddish speaking children underpinned