MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION | A Nation of Little Readers: Yiddish Primers and Workbooks for Children, with Miriam Borden from language jokes Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 42 min 25 sec
✓ Published: 13-Nov-2020

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The 1940s and '50s were a golden age for primers, workbooks, and educational material designed for children in Yiddish schools. The books and notebooks themselves have much to tell us—but so does what the users of these materials left behind: doodles, addresses, jokes, and other marginalia that provide a glimpse into the inner world of schoolchildren in an educational system that today exists only in memory. Miriam Borden has become a collector of these archival objects and recently won the 20