Description
Book SynopsisThis book is a result of the growing public and academic interest in the variety of childhoods that take place side by side in the multicultural state of Israel, despite its tiny geographical dimensions.
In a collection of groundbreaking articles, the book describes various features of Israeli childhoods – in the present and recent past – in both Arab and Jewish societies.
The first section of the book - 'Childhood and Environment in Israel' - addresses the various spaces in which childhood practices occurred and still occur in Israel – the intimate home environment, the educational environment, playgrounds, and many others. The second section – 'Childhoods and Power Structures in Israeli Literature' illuminates the perceptions and images of childhood, and describes the extensive and heterogenic variety of childhood representations in Jewish and Arab literature.
Scholars of culture, society, education, and literature – Jews and Arabs – have joined forces to encourage in-depth thinking about perceptions of childhood in the diverse Israeli society, the status of children in Arab and Jewish societies, and the resources invested to nurture them from a global aspect (as individuals with universal duties and rights) and/or a local point of view (as a national asset, as designers of the nation's future, or, alternatively, as a burden, nuisance or threat).
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Childhoods in Multicultural Israeli Society
Einat Baram Eshel
Part I
Childhood and Environment in Israel
Chapter 1
Teaching the Children to Play: The Establishment of the First Playgrounds in Palestine during the British Mandate Period
Zipora Shehory-Rubin, Shifra Shvarts
Chapter 2
Girls at the Intersection: Discourse on Girl Labor in the Zionist Women Workers’ Movement
Orian Zakai
Chapter 3
Between Wonder and Horror: The Presentation of Palestinian Child Beggars in the Docufiction Film Hard Change
Yoad Eliaz
Chapter 4
Constructing Early Childhood in the Domestic Space: Jewish and Arab Communities in Israel
Ofra Tene, Orit Abuhav
Chapter 5
The Experience of Shared Childhood: Jewish and Arab Children in a Bilingual and Binational School
Wurud Jayusi, Ilana Paul-Binyamin
Chapter 6
Multiculturalism in Lantern Library Education Program for Palestinian-Arab Children in Israel
Athar Ḥaj Yaḥya
Chapter 7
Representation of Three Palestinian Girls in Three Israeli Television Series: Change and Hope
Ornat Turin, Arielle Friedman
Chapter 8
Israeli Childhood in India: Perceptions and Practices of “Proper” Childhood through the Case of Israeli Families Backpacking in India
Khen Ya’ari
Part II
Childhood and Power Structures in Israeli Literature
Chapter 9
In the Shadow of the Wall: Representation of the Separation Wall in Palestinian and Israeli Children`s Literature
Loaay Wattad, Roi Silberberg
Chapter 10
Reflections on Photography, Place, and Identity: Children of the Arab Minority in Israeli Photographed Picturebooks
Einat Baram Eshel
Chapter 11
A Treasure of Power and Control: The Encounter between an Arab Boy and a Jewish-Settler Boy in Emuna Elon’s Fathi’s Treasure
Amer Dahamshe
Chapter 12
Acceptance of the “Other” after the Oslo Accords in Arabic-Palestinian Short Stories for Children in Israel: Mustafa Murrar’s Stories as a Sample
Hanan Mousa
Chapter 13
Magic Tricks and Constructive Confrontations: Representations of the Arab “Other” in Contemporary Israeli Children’s Literature (2012-2019)
Smadar Falk-Peretz
Chapter 14
Childhood Representations in the Palestinian Short Stories of Muḥammad Naffāꜥ
Kawthar Jabir-Kassoum
Chapter 15
Construction of the Character of Young Labiba in the Novel Ein Khafsha by Rajaa Bakriyyeh
Lana Wehbi
Chapter 16
Girls at the Café: On Israeli Women Writers’ Representations of Childhood and Girls' Experiences
Shai Rudin
