Jews and Jewishness in British Children's Literature

Madelyn Travis

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Routledge
14 October 2024

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of constructions of one of Britain’s longest standing minority communities. Representations in children’s literature influenced by the impact of the Enlightenment, the Empire, the Holocaust and 9/11 reveal an ongoing concern with establishing, maintaining or problematising the boundaries between Jews and Gentiles. Chapters on gender, refugees, multiculturalism and historical fiction argue that literature for young people demonstrates that the position of Jews in Britain has been ambivalent, and that this ambivalence has persisted to a surprising degree in view of the dramatic socio-cultural changes that have taken place over two centuries.

Wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in approach, Jews and Jewishness in British Children’s Literature discusses over one hundred texts ranging from picture books to young adult fiction and realism to fantasy. Madelyn Travis examines rare eighteenth- and nineteenth-century material plus works by authors including Maria Edgeworth, E. Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling, Richmal Crompton, Lynne Reid Banks, Michael Rosen and others. The study also draws on Travis’s previously unpublished interviews with authors including Adele Geras, Eva Ibbotson, Ann Jungman and Judith Kerr.

By: Madelyn Travis
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781032927954
ISBN 10: 103292795X
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1: England, ‘Jerusalem’ and the Jews: the Eighteenth Century to the Second World War 2. ‘Conversion’ to Englishness: Refugees and Belonging 3. The Hyphen Problem: British-Jewish Identity 4. Mother, Monster, Mensch: Jews and Gender 5. ‘Good Jews’ or ‘Bad Jews’?: The Jewish Question Revisited Conclusion

Madelyn J. Travis is an Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published on historical and contemporary British and American children’s literature and is currently researching Jewish childhood in England. This is her first book.

Reviews for Jews and Jewishness in British Children's Literature

'An original and significant addition to understanding of the interaction of British culture with the Jews and ""Jews.""' - Professor David Feldman, author of Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations and Political Culture1840-1914 'The book is a valiant effort to address the intersection of Jewish studies and children's literature...Travis covers such a wide range of literature and addresses so many salient topics...This work has the potential to stimulate serious investigation of such topics.' - Barbara Thiede, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2014