“children's literature”

In a word, Yiddish children’s literature, per Udel, has a long history, a series of stormy futures past, and a fraught yet fruitful and ongoing aftermath. Throughout the book, Udel maintains the necessary critical distance without losing sight of the vitality present in printed matter for children, the institutions pursuing this work, to say the least of the debates surrounding this highly contested work which suffused each epoch. 

May 31, 2026

Occupations Past and Present is a visual literacy curriculum drawing on Mayer Kirshenblatt’s images of eastern European Jewish life to teach general (not only Jewish) grade school audiences how to relate to, ask questions of, and learn from images.

Dec 01, 2025

Reflections on two works of fiction that provided an immersive rendering of Jewish persecution in 1930s Austria.

May 20, 2025

From CDs to detective stories, zines to toys, the objects remembered and analyzed in this volume presents the range of material that filled the childhoods of Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews growing up in the last decades of the twentieth century.

Jun 21, 2023

In this piece Beth Dwoskin explains how Leah Hoffman's play about the Yiddish alphabet can be adapted for children's classes today. She presents her English translation of the play alongside a recording of the alefbeys song in English.

Nov 15, 2022

This August, Naydus Press published Toward Hopeful Skies, a trilingual (Yiddish, Ukrainian, English) volume of two works of children's poetry, as a benefit volume to support the refugee resettlement agency HIAS's work with refugees from Ukraine.

Oct 26, 2022

A sinister children's story by Joseph Opatoshu. 

Apr 21, 2022

Arele Viswanath shares the challenges and innovations of translating Harry Potter into Yiddish.

Feb 16, 2022

Kinder-loshn's mission is to make great classic works of Yiddish children’s literature available to readers in both Yiddish and English and to publish new Yiddish children’s books and translations of other works into Yiddish and English.

Dec 02, 2021

Cameron Bernstein interviews director Jake Krakovsky about his bilingual Yiddish-English puppet film “Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup” based on short stories by Chaver Paver.

Nov 04, 2021

In Golan Y. Moskowitz’s engrossing Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context, he tells of the fantasy worlds that the beloved children's book writer and illustrator created over his lifetime, initially as a form of self-preservation, a way of surviving a world hostile to overt displays of queerness and Jewishness, and eventually — and rebelliously — as a form of pleasure and self-expression.

Oct 24, 2021

Margaret Frothingham and Paula Cohen discuss fire trucks, folktales, and other considerations in Cohen's illustrations for this new treasury of Yiddish children's stories.

Apr 21, 2021

Several of In geveb's youngest readers were hard at work over winter break and submitted wonderful book reports on Yiddish literature. 

Mar 09, 2021

A previously untranslated Chelm story from Isaac Bashevis Singer on the legendary king of Chelm.

Dec 21, 2020

A previously untranslated Chelm story from Isaac Bashevis Singer, a humoristic exploration of experimental economic systems in the legendary city of fools.

Dec 21, 2020

Introductory essay to Isaac Bashevis Singer's Chelm Stories.

Dec 21, 2020

Avram Mlotek shares the personal, family, and artistic roots of the Folksbiene's online pandemic-era Kids and Yiddish reunion show this spring.

Dec 10, 2020

The abundance of "eternal grandparent" figures in Jewish children's literature begs the question: Which bubbe and zayde are right for you?

Nov 30, 2020

A children’s tale, written by Shloyme Bastomski and telling the fictionalized origin story of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

Nov 24, 2020

An original children's story celebrating Yiddish-English translation.

Nov 22, 2020

Children ages 5 - 13 can read a Yiddish story in the translation or original and submit a book report to In Geveb.

Nov 19, 2020

An interview with translator Ellen Cassedy about her two translations of Yiddish children’s poetry into English: a collection of prewar children’s poems for a book called “Yiddish Zoo” and a collection of Boris Sandler’s “Good Morning” poems for children.

Nov 16, 2020

Over the next few months, we'll be bringing you a series of posts across the blog, pedagogy, and translation sections of In geveb, all with a focus on Yiddish children's literature.

Nov 15, 2020

A Passover tale of protective seclusion and ultimate hope.

Apr 05, 2020

Mark I. West offers suggestions for teaching Jacob Glatstein's 1943 Anti-Fascist children's poem.

Jun 10, 2019

Dec 10, 2018

A new translation of Jacob Glatstein's powerful and playful 1943 children's poem.

Nov 09, 2017

Calling all teachers! Participate in our pedagogy poll.

Nov 06, 2017

The longtime editor of the Yiddish Forverts and author of fourteen books spoke with Sarah Ponichtera about growing up in Soviet Moldavia, being an immigrant, and reading. 

Mar 06, 2017