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The Key Is Lost
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

The Key Is Lost

When the Germans occupy Holland in 1940 and begin to persecute the Jews there, twelve-year-old Eva and her family assume false names and move from one hiding place to another.

Anna Is Still Here
  • Language: en

Anna Is Still Here

Thirteen-year-old Anna, who was a hidden child in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor.

Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon

Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

Secret Spaces of Childhood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Secret Spaces of Childhood

This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates

Hide and Seek
  • Language: en

Hide and Seek

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A young Jewish girl living in Holland tells of her experiences during the Nazi occupation, her years in hiding, and the aftershock when the war finally ends.

Solo Vocal Works on Jewish Themes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Solo Vocal Works on Jewish Themes

Solo Vocal Works on Jewish Themes: A Bibliography of Jewish Composers is a comprehensive and annotated compendium of stage, concert, and liturgical compositions written by Jewish composers from every known time period and country. Kenneth Jaffe has amassed nearly 3,000 large-scale musical works for solo voice(s) on Jewish themes, written by Jewish composers. The works include over 400 cantatas, 150 oratorios, almost 300 operas, more than 100 sacred services, 20 symphonies, and more than 350 stage works, including Yiddish theatre, Purim and sacred plays, multi-media pieces, and musical theatre. In addition, original song cycles and liturgical services arranged for a modest to large complement...

Jewish Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 20

Jewish Culture

Experience Jewish culture through literature, celebrations, games and crafts. This packet includes an introduction, a discussion of this culture's role in U.S. history, and an extensive selection of recommended literature.

Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Writing about the Holocaust and writing for young readers evoke two quite separate sets of concerns which are not always mutually compatible. The first half of Representing the Holocaust focuses on how literary material can present historically verifiable material. The second half examines how such materials will be perceived by young readers; whether they will be able to determine any boundaries between fictionality and factuality, and what motivates young readers to keep reading. The work concludes by placing the study in the context of Holocaust education.

My Mother's Voice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

My Mother's Voice

Named Honor Book of the Year by the Children’s Literature Association Winner: 2003 Canadian Jewish Book Award for scholarship on a Jewish subject Finalist: 2003 Alberta Book Awards Scholarly Book of the Year How do children’s books represent the Holocaust? How do such books negotiate the tension between the desire to protect children, and the commitment to tell children the truth about the world? If Holocaust representations in children’s books respect the narrative conventions of hope and happy endings, how do they differ, if at all, from popular representations intended for adult audiences? And where does innocence lie, if the children’s fable of Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautif...

International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1399

International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-08-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Children's publishing is a huge international industry and there is ever-growing interest from researchers and students in the genre as cultural object of study and tool for education and socialization.