Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature by Miriam Udel non-media professor of Yiddish literature at

professor of Yiddish literature at McGill University

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Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature by Miriam Udel non-media professor of Yiddish literature atHow 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