Children's World

Title

Children's World

Description

"From earliest infancy the Jewish child in the Pale heard singing and chanting, humming and intoning. In the home, in the back yard, in the narrow village street, in the cheder, in the synagogue, at the Shabbath table, during holidays, the children created rhymes, play songs, ditties, riddles, nonsense songs, even satirical rhymes. Despite the difficult surroundings and the multiple restrictions imposed upon the child by his adult environment, these songs are very numerous and reflect the many facets of its own brief, intense life in the children's world of fantasy and play, as well as some of the aspects of the grown-up world around him." (Ruth Rubin, Voices of a People, 1974, 1979, 2000, p. 45).

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Citation

“Children's World,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed December 23, 2024, https://exhibitions.yivo.org/items/show/2143.

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