Celina Mashiach

Dr. Celina Mashiach is the former Head of the Department of Literature at the David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem. Mashiach specializes in children's literature and politics. Her book Childhood and Nationalism (2000) explores the constructed image of the Jewish child in Hebrew literature in the Diaspora and pre-state Israel and its role in nation building. No Children Out of Politics (2008) examines politics in children's literature and the politics of children's literature.

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Miriam Yalan-Stekelis

Miriam Yalan-Stekelis

Miriam Yalan-Stekelis revolutionized Israeli children’s literature with her classic poems and stories. She challenged the convention of the “happy ending” in children’s stories, portraying children playing yet also struggling and suffering from the judgment of adults. Yalan-Stekelis’s play-songs and poems have become an integral part of the cultural repertoire of kindergartens and schools in Israel.

Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar, 1998

Children's Literature in Hebrew

Born in the Diaspora and continued in the Yishuv and the state of Israel, children’s literature in Hebrew participated actively in facilitating the construction of a national collective self. Female children’s book authors disseminated Hebrew as a secular language in both Palestine and the Diaspora and created a new prototype of the child as a native-born “child of nature.”

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