Abstract
IN THIS VOLUME of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, we have attempted to examine the history of children, childhood, and child-rearing in Jewish eastern Europe. Historians have long delved into how the understanding of childhood and children’s roles changed over time and studied the ways in which children participated in determining their own lives. In recent years, however, in historical scholarship and literary and cultural studies there has occurred ‘a turn to children’s experiences’, which have been investigated not only as a means of examining the lives and selfrepresentations of young individuals and the family but also because of the