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Dr. Yael Darr is a senior lecturer in the Child and Youth Culture M.A. Program of the Porter School of Cultural Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Darr's studies mainly address children's culture and intergenerational relations during the late Jewish Yishuv era in pre-state Palestine and the first two decades of Israeli statehood. Her book Called Away From Our School-Desks: The Yishuv in the shadow of the Holocaust and in Anticipation of Statehood in Children's Literature of Eretz Israel, 1939-1948 (2006 Magnes press, in Hebrew) explores the profound changes in the narrative told to children in Jewish Palestine during the 1940’s in light of World War II, the Holocaust and the transition from pre-state to statehood. In recent years, her study focuses on three additional topics: changes in the Holocaust story for children over the course of three generations; the links between adult and child literature; and construction of the canon of Hebrew children's literature. Darr has served as the children's literary critic for the Hebrew Ha’aretz newspaper for the past 15 years and also authored The Mapa Guide to Children's Books (Mapa, 2005, in Hebrew).
