Chapter published in:
The Nation and the Child: Nation building in Hebrew children’s literature, 1930–1970Yael Darr
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 10] 2018
► pp. 9–26
Chapter 1Nation building and the Zionist school
Creating a Hebrew poetics for children
Article outline
- Combining socialist-Zionist politics with progressive education
- Undermining parental authority
- The classroom replaces the home and family
- The fantasy of sweet orphanhood
- Children as agents of active Zionism
