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The Construction of
Children’s Literature within the Creation of Hebrew
Culture in Eretz-Israel
Thesis Submitted for the Degree “Doctor of Philosophy”
by
Tel Aviv University
December 1999
This work was carried out under the supervision of
Professor Zohar Shavit
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Hebrew Abstract i-xv
English Abstract I-XVI
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: The Actors:
Entrepreneurs of the New Hebrew Culture and Children’s
Literature 22
Chapter 2: Creating Children’s Literature in Relations
with other Systems 52
Chapter 3: Hebrew Texts for Children in Palestine, 1880ִ|ִ1905 88
Chapter 4: The New Repertoire of Children’s Literature in
Palestine 109
Chapter 5: Building the Past for Building the
Future 149
Chapter 6: Jews as a Nation 166
Chapter 7: The Land of Israel: The Homeland Past and Future 183
Chapter 8: The Desire for Independence as a Central
Principle of the New Culture 226
Chapter
9: Zeev Yaavez: Religious Nationalism 276
Bibliography 289
Appendices 319
Appendix
1: Biographical Notes 321
Appendix
2: Participants of the “Teachers’ Meetings” 1891ִ|ִ1896 335
Appendix
3: Annotated Chronological List of Texts for Children in
Palestine 336
Appendix
4: List of Books for Loan at the Library of David Yudilovitch, 1896ִ|ִ1898 348
Appendix
5: Hebrew Staged Plays in Palestine between 1880ִ|ִ1905 352
Appendix 6: Chronological Table of Events and
Books 354
Appendix 7: Geography Books 359
Appendix
8: Grazovski: The Proliferous Entrepreneur 364
Appendix 9: The Literary Model of “Catching a
Bird” 366
Appendix 10: The “Sharon” Book 369
Appendix 11: Personal Connections in the “Big
Circle” 371