Life, Literature: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Moseley
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Poland ◽  
Jewish Youth

Taming the Shtetl

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kupfert Heller
Keyword(s):  
Small Town ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Interwar Poland ◽  
Jewish Youth ◽  
Hearts And Minds

This chapter looks at the efforts of Betar's leaders in Warsaw to capture the hearts and minds of Jewish youth in provincial towns across central and eastern Poland. Armed with long-standing stereotypes about shtetl life, Betar leaders were certain that bringing “modernity” and “progress” to these towns would mobilize provincial youth for the Zionist cause. The chapter studies the YIVO (Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut) autobiography collection, as well as correspondence between Betar's headquarters in Warsaw and its small-town outposts, to reveal the tensions that arose between these urban activists and the young Jews they sought to transform. Providing a vivid account of Jewish life in small towns across interwar Poland, it exposes the vast gap between the ideological vision of Betar's leaders and the political beliefs and experiences of its members.

Life, Literature: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Moseley
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Poland ◽  
Jewish Youth

Daniella Doron, Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xv + 309 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future ◽  
Jewish Youth ◽  
Jews In France

This chapter reviews the book Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation (2015), by Daniella Doron. Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France examines how the French Jews shifted from immediate relief and rehabilitation activities following the Holocaust to longer-term efforts aimed at establishing communal stability and unity. Doron highlights the important role played by Jewish youth in these efforts, arguing that they can serve as a lens through which to study larger concerns such as the future of Jews in France, the reconstruction of families, and ideas about national identity in the reestablished republic. Doron shows that there were competing visions for reconstruction and that hope for the future was often complicated by anxiety and an underlying sense of crisis.

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