The Historical Narrative of the Israeli Right-wing in Children and Youth Literature, 1965-1980
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Children’s and young adults’ literature, Israel in the 1950s and 1960s, Historical fiction, Uriel Ofek, Galila Ron-Fedder-AmitAbstract
Israeli children’s and young adults’ literature responded to the ideological and political transformations in Israel in the 1950s and 1960s. The article focuses on the shift in historical fiction for the young people from the literary margins to the center. Beginning in the mid-1960s, this literature branched onto two paths: the first was led by Uriel Ofek, a key figure in children’s literature scene in the 1960s and 1970s, who, although sharing the left movements’ views, followed a pedagogical, apolitical agenda. The second was led by people from inside the right-wing establishment, the main figure being Galila Ron-Fedder-Amit who, with the blessing of Israel’s first right-wing Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, started churning out books on the prestate’s right-wing paramilitary organizations (Etzel and Lechi).
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