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).
Einat Baram Eshel is senior lecturer at Beit Berl College. Wurud Jayusi is director of the Center for the Advancement of Shared Society at Beit Berl College. Ilana Paul-Binyamin is dean of the faculty of education at Beit Berl College. Eman Younis is head of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Arab Academic Institute of Education, Beit Berl.
Contents Introduction: Childhoods in Multicultural Israeli Society Einat Baram Eshel 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 Zipora Shehory-Rubin, Shifra Shvarts Chapter 2 Girls at the Intersection: Discourse on Girl Labor in the Zionist Women Workers' Movement Orian Zakai Chapter 3 Between Wonder and Horror: The Presentation of Palestinian Child Beggars in the Docufiction Film Hard Change Yoad Eliaz Chapter 4 Constructing Early Childhood in the Domestic Space: Jewish and Arab Communities in Israel Ofra Tene, Orit Abuhav Chapter 5 The Experience of Shared Childhood: Jewish and Arab Children in a Bilingual and Binational School Wurud Jayusi, Ilana Paul-Binyamin Chapter 6 Multiculturalism in Lantern Library Education Program for Palestinian-Arab Children in Israel Athar Haj Yahya Chapter 7 Representation of Three Palestinian Girls in Three Israeli Television Series: Change and Hope Ornat Turin, Arielle Friedman Chapter 8 Israeli Childhood in India: Perceptions and Practices of "Proper" Childhood through the Case of Israeli Families Backpacking in India Khen Ya'ari 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 Loaay Wattad, Roi Silberberg Chapter 10 Reflections on Photography, Place, and Identity: Children of the Arab Minority in Israeli Photographed Picturebooks Einat Baram Eshel 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 Amer Dahamshe 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 Hanan Mousa Chapter 13 Magic Tricks and Constructive Confrontations: Representations of the Arab "Other" in Contemporary Israeli Children's Literature (2012-2019) Smadar Falk-Peretz Chapter 14 Childhood Representations in the Palestinian Short Stories of Muhammad Naffa Kawthar Jabir-Kassoum Chapter 15 Construction of the Character of Young Labiba in the Novel Ein Khafsha by Rajaa Bakriyyeh Lana Wehbi Chapter 16 Girls at the Cafe: On Israeli Women Writers' Representations of Childhood and Girls' Experiences Shai Rudin
