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- Title
Under Empty Skies: The Absence of God and Parental Replacement in Israeli Children's Literature on the Jewish Holocaust.
- Authors
Sarig, Roni
- Abstract
This article discusses the question of God's existence during the Holocaust in three children's stories written in Hebrew, and argues that the depicted God is an absent one incapable of saving children; a weak, helpless God; or a God who does not exist at all. Instead, the parents in the stories do everything in their power to protect their children or to preserve their innocence in a reality in which saving them is impossible. Through this representation, a humanistic worldview emerges that emphasizes the significance of compassion. This perspective appears as a human obligation—that of parents to their children—in a Godless world.
- Subjects
CHILDREN'S stories; HEBREW children's literature; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945, in literature; CHILDREN'S literature; GOD in literature
- Publication
Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2019, Vol 44, Issue 3, p271
- ISSN
0885-0429
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/chq.2019.0033