Jewish and Arab Childhood in Israel

Contemporary Perspectives

Einat Baram Eshel, Wurud Jayusi, Ilana Paul-Binyamin, Eman Younis

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781978779198
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This 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 contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction: Childhoods in Multicultural Israeli Society
• 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
• Chapter 2: Girls at the Intersection: Discourse on Girl Labor in the Zionist Women Workers’ Movement
• Chapter 3: Between Wonder and Horror: The Presentation of Palestinian Child Beggars in the Docufiction Film Hard Change
• Chapter 4: Constructing Early Childhood in the Domestic Space: Jewish and Arab Communities in Israel
• Chapter 5: The Experience of Shared Childhood: Jewish and Arab Children in a Bilingual and Binational School
• Chapter 6: Multiculturalism in Lantern Library Education Program for Palestinian-Arab Children in Israel
• Chapter 7: Representation of Three Palestinian Girls in Three Israeli Television Series: Change and Hope
• Chapter 8: Israeli Childhood in India: Perceptions and Practices of “Proper” Childhood through the Case of Israeli Families Backpacking in India
• 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
• Chapter 10: Reflections on Photography, Place, and Identity: Children of the Arab Minority in Israeli Photographed Picturebooks
• 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 Story
• 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
• Chapter 13: Magic Tricks and Constructive Confrontations: Representations of the Arab “Other” in Contemporary Israeli Children’s Literature (2012–2019)
• Chapter 14: Childhood Representations in the Palestinian Short Stories of Muḥammad Naffāꜥ
• Chapter 15: Construction of the Character of Young Labiba in the Novel Ein Khafsha by Rajaa Bakriyyeh
• Chapter 16: Girls at the Café: On Israeli Women Writers’ Representations of Childhood and Girls’ Experiences
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors