With Maternal Ferocity: Reclaiming Secular Yiddish Children’s Literature

Based on her new book Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, Yiddish scholar Miriam Udel will reflect on her efforts to reclaim and revivify the corpus of secular Yiddish children’s literature published in Eastern Europe and the Americas during the 20th century. She will consider the relationship between the texts, many of which have been preserved digitally, and the vulnerable books-as-objects, focusing especially on the collection of children’s books “rescued” from the Buenos Aires Jewish community after the AMIA bombing attack in 1994.

Miriam Udel is associate professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture and the Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature and Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque and editor and translator of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature.

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