History and Religion of Second Temple Judaism -- The Jewish Child, from the Bible to the Holocaust (2020 Boccaccini), course

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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

(A) The Bible

General information

  • The Binding of Isaac (Child sacrifice)

(-) Children in the Hebrew Bible (I and II) The Obedient child


(B) The Diaspora

<-> 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


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<-> Children in the New Testament Christian Origins


(C) The Jewish Family





(D) The contested child



(E) After the Emancipation

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

Jewish Schools Children' literature


(F) Children of the Holocaust

<Overview>


==Kindertrasport== (2 meetings

  • Kindertrasport <Documentary>


== Children in the Ghettoes == (2 meetings)

Jews in the Ghettoes

  • Varsaw film



== (Children in Hiding). == (2 meetings)

Europa Europa

Jewish Orphanages and Boarding School during the Holocaust


Children in Hiding

  • [ Villa Nonantola]]
  • [ Jewish Children's Home in Oslo]
  • Christian Orphanages and Schools {film Au revous (


Children life in (4 meetings)

Children in concentration Camps

  • Jonah (film) Young children with family of members

O Children of Teresin



  • Children treated as adults.

Hungarian movie



(E) After the Holocaust

The Recovery (Film: Our Children)


== Children of the Middle East == 4 meetings

Come and Live

The Terrorist Child

(Children's rights

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