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* [[Child Jesus]]
* [[Child Jesus]]
* [[Suffer Little Children]] (Jesus and the Children)
* [[Suffer Little Children]] (Jesus and the Children)


<b> Children in the Diaspora (the Book of Daniel)
<b> Children in the Diaspora (the Book of Daniel)
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Living in an Hostile World (The Pious Child)
Living in an Hostile World (The Pious Child)


*From Daniel to the present
* From Daniel to the present
* Saints of the Church  
* Saints of the Church  
*S. Dominic Savio, 14 years (1857
*S. Dominic Savio, 14 years (1857)


[[Fiery Furnace of Babylon]]
[[Fiery Furnace of Babylon]]
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*From the maccabees to the present (Kiddush Ha-Shem)
*From the maccabees to the present (Kiddush Ha-Shem)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_with_seven_sons Woman with seven sons] (Maccabean Persecution)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_with_seven_sons Woman with seven sons] (Maccabean Persecution)
*[https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/research_sites/cjl/texts/cjrelations/resources/articles/Lander_martyrdom/index.html Martyrdom in Jewish Traditions]
* [https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/research_sites/cjl/texts/cjrelations/resources/articles/Lander_martyrdom/index.html Martyrdom in Jewish Traditions]
* [https://www.aish.com/jl/m/pm/48936542.html Judaism and Martyrdom]
* [https://www.aish.com/jl/m/pm/48936542.html Judaism and Martyrdom]


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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarcisius St. Tarcisius] (3rd cent.)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarcisius St. Tarcisius] (3rd cent.)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitus St. Vitus] (4th cent.)  
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitus St. Vitus] (4th cent.)  
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_of_Rome St. Agnes of Rome]], Age 13 (4th cent.)  
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_of_Rome St. Agnes of Rome], Age 13 (4th cent.)  
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancras_of_Rome St. Pancras of Rome (Sanctus Pancratius)] (304)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancras_of_Rome St. Pancras of Rome (Sanctus Pancratius)] (304)


Revision as of 15:35, 6 January 2020

History and Religion of Second Temple Judaism: The Jewish Child, from the Bible to the Holocaust (MIDEAST 335) is a course offered by Gabriele Boccaccini in the Winter 2020.

Description

What is the role of children, boys and girls, in Judaism? Although the religious education of children in the family has always been a major concern in Judaism, children are rarely presented as role models in the Hebrew Bible. Since Hellenistic-Roman times (in Second Temple Judaism and the New Testament) we can see more attention being paid to children, which led Jews (and Christians) to stress the importance of schooling and formal education even outside the family. Children however were not recognized as autonomous until the nineteenth century, when Jews and Christians in Europe and the United States got involved in the general cultural debate on children's rights, which also led to the establishment of the first youth organizations. The course will focus in particular on the "ideal" role that Jews attributed to children based on their reading and rereading of ancient scriptures, and on the Holocaust as a very special chapter in the experience of the Jewish child, when thousands of children in total abandonment found themselves forced to take their destiny in their own hands, in the struggle to survive, in hiding, in ghettoes or concentration camps.

Syllabus

(1) Jan 8, 2020

Children in the Ancient Near East: General Introduction

  • The Binding of Isaac (Child sacrifice)

(2-3) Jan 13 & 15, 2020

<a> Children in Second Temple Judaism

Children in the Hebrew Bible

Children in the Early Jesus Movement


Children in the Diaspora (the Book of Daniel)

Living in an Hostile World (The Pious Child)

  • From Daniel to the present
  • Saints of the Church
  • S. Dominic Savio, 14 years (1857)

Fiery Furnace of Babylon

A dangerous world for children

The Child martyr (the Books of the Maccabees)

(4) Jan 22, 2020 (no class on Jan 20)

The Jewish Child in the Middle Ages

  • Rituals of Initiation
  • Education

The Blood Libel

The convert (Abduction of Children)

(5-6) Jan 27-29, 2020

<a> After the Emancipation

Jewish Orphanages (late 19th-cent - early 20th cent. until WW2)

Jewish Schools

Children' literature

Children of the Holocaust: General Introduction

(7-8) Feb 3 & 5, 2020

Kindertrasport

  • Our Beloved Children or Kindertrasport <Documentary>

(9-10) Feb 10 & 12, 2020

Jews in the Ghettoes

  • Varsaw film

(11-12) Feb 17 & 19, 2020

The Literature of the Holocaust

  • <a> Diaries, Music, Art, Poems
  • Memories

(13-14) Feb 24 & 26, 2020

The Holocaust Movies

FebMid-Term Exam

< Spring Break >

(15-16) March 9 & 11, 2020

Children in Hiding

  • [ Villa Nonantola]]
  • [ Jewish Children's Home in Oslo]
  • Christian Orphanages and Schools

Film: Un sac de billes / A Bag of Marbles (France, 2017) [110m]

(17-18) March 16 & 18, 2020

Children in concentration Camps

(a) Auschwitz, Belsen-Belsen

Film: Look at the Sky (1993)

(19-20) March 23 & 25, 2020

(b) The Buchenwald Children

Film: Fateless

(21-22) : March 30 & April 1, 2020

  • After the Holocaust (the Displaced Children)

Film: The Search (USA 1948) [105m]

(23) April 6, 2020

The first witnesses:

  • One Child's Story at Chelmo: Szymon Srebrnik
  • One Child's Story at Auschwitz: Luigi Ferri (lecture)

24-25 : April 13 & 15, 2020

Students' Presentations

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Students' Presentations:

Final Exam: Students' Presentations

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