Jewish and Arab Childhood in Israel

Einat Baram Eshel is the head of the Yemima Center for Research and Teaching of Children's Literature at Beit Berl College, and a Senior lecturer at the Levinsky College of Education..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.

• ContentsIntroduction: Childhoods in Multicultural Israeli SocietyEinat Baram EshelPart IChildhood and Environment in IsraelChapter 1 Teaching the Children to Play: The Establishment of the First Playgrounds in Palestine during the British Mandate PeriodZipora Shehory-Rubin, Shifra ShvartsChapter 2 Girls at the Intersection: Discourse on Girl Labor in the Zionist Women Workers’ MovementOrian ZakaiChapter 3 Between Wonder and Horror: The Presentation of Palestinian Child Beggars in the Docufiction Film Hard ChangeYoad EliazChapter 4Constructing Early Childhood in the Domestic Space: Jewish and Arab Communities in IsraelOfra Tene, Orit AbuhavChapter 5The Experience of Shared Childhood: Jewish and Arab Children in a Bilingual and Binational SchoolWurud Jayusi, Ilana Paul-BinyaminChapter 6Multiculturalism in Lantern Library Education Program for Palestinian-Arab Children in IsraelAthar ?aj Ya?yaChapter 7Representation of Three Palestinian Girls in T

Jewish and Arab Childhoods in Israel is a significant contribution to the growing body of academic multidisciplinary works on concepts of childhood and experiences of children. A group of Israeli researchers – Jews and Palestinians – jointly offer here sixteen penetrating studies covering a great variety of themes from early childhood in the domestic space through children’s plays, work and formal education to childhood as featured in photography and literature. Particularly interesting are those chapters, which are based on a systematic comparison between aspects of childhood in both the Jewish and the Palestinian communities in Israel. Well aware of the a-symmetry between the dominant (Jewish) majority and the weakened (Palestinian) minority, the editors have nevertheless opted for an equal representation of both, from the point of view of childhood and children. The book will be of great value to those interested in studies on child cultures, on the Israeli society and on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.