For Girls and Boys and Everyone Else: Children

Beit Avi Chai presents “For Girls and Boys and Everyone Else”: A series that examine children’s culture in the early years of the State.

Children’s newspapers, books, and radio skits produced the heroes admired by Israeli children through the nineteen-sixties.

Dudi Simha, Shmulikipod, and the Hasamba gang accompanied the childhood and adolescence of thousands of Israeli children.

What values did they impart? What, of all of it, is still relevant to today’s children?Moderator: psychologist and author Tzippy Gon-Gross

Musical accompaniment: Dafna Zehavi, Eran Zehavi, Li Gaon, Uri Weinstock and the Totzeret Haaretz ensemble-Tal Sadai, Nimrod Ginsburg, Oren Talmor

Session 1: Our unanimous slogan: eight follow oneTuesday, February 26, 8 PM

What was the ideal sabra? How did Israelis cope with absorbing children who were Holocaust survivors and with the remembrance of the Holocaust?

With:Author Alona FrenkelCultural scholar Dr. Haim Grossman

Session 2: Pluto the Puppy from Kibbutz Megiddo

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 20:00

What did city kids read? The kibbutz kids? What was characteristic of the culture of secular, religious, and Chareidi children?

With:

Author Yehudit Rotem

Historian and cultural scholar Prof. Yaara Bar-On

Moderator: psychologist and author Tzippy Gon-Gross

Session 3: Why did the Boy Laugh in his Dream?

Tuesday, March 12, 8 PM

A look at the lullabies that shaped childhood experiences, at parent-children relationships, and at the impact of the lack of grandparents.

Moderator: psychologist and author Tzippy Gon-Gross

Session 4: Pull up a Chair, Get Ready, Get Set– It’s Time to Gather round the Radio Set What was so fascinating about the children’s radio serials?

Tuesday, March 19, 8 PM

With the young broadcasters and reporters of that period:Journalist and television anchor Yaakov AhimeirActor and radio broadcaster Moti Barkan

Admission: NIS 30; students: NIS 20, NIS 100 for the series

This is a Hebrew-language only event.