The Palestinian Children Literature in Israel: An Anxious Voice of a Minority

Abstract

 With the inception of the state of Israel, a national Arab minority remained, yet the Palestinian cultural life in the country was paralyzed. Considering a variety of subjects in the Palestinian children’s literature in Israel, we encounter the absence of both the national and the pan-Arab dimensions, until the turn of last century. In this historical preview, we’ve painted a representation of an actuality, within the political context of which the Palestinian culture arose and Palestinian children’s literature grew and developed. In this paper, we shall attempt to give a brief overview of the history of the Arab minority in Israel’s Palestinian children’s literature. We will also list some of the main currents and tributaries that contributed to its formulation as a literature of a minority.