“Childhood Left the Brightest Memories”: Early Years Described in the Autobiographies of Jewish Female Students in the Early 20th Century

Oksana Drach

“Childhood Left the Brightest Memories”: Early Years Described in the Autobiographies of Jewish Female Students in the Early 20th Century

Publication date: 19.09.2023

Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, 2021, Volume 19, pp. 43-64

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925SJ.21.004.16413

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“Childhood Left the Brightest Memories”: Early Years Described in the Autobiographies of Jewish Female Students in the Early 20th Century

Abstract

The article presents the childhood years of Jewish female students of the medical department of the Kyiv Higher Courses for Women, as described in their own autobiographies. The study of their autobiographical images of childhood reveals transformations in the relationships between parents and daughters in Jewish families in the modern period, the variability of the home upbringing of girls, and the obligatory component of their education. The admission of daughters to the educational institutions determined by their parents symbolized the end of childhood.

Translated from Ukrainian by Mariia Maletska

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autobiography, Jewish female students, daughters, Jewish childhood, home schooling

Jewish female students, daughters, Jewish childhood, home schooling, autobiography

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Information: Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, 2021, Volume 19, pp. 43-64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925SJ.21.004.16413

Article type: Original article

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“Childhood Left the Brightest Memories”: Early Years Described in the Autobiographies of Jewish Female Students in the Early 20th Century

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“Childhood Left the Brightest Memories”: Early Years Described in the Autobiographies of Jewish Female Students in the Early 20th Century

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Oksana Drach

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7859-3385

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University

Published at: 19.09.2023

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