The Ideas of Younger Generations on The Education in Jewish FolkloreThe Ideas of Younger Generations on The Education in Jewish Folklore

Abstract

This study is dedicated to the analysis of the ideas of younger generations’ educating in the Jewish people’s folklore. Speaking about the relevance of the subject, it should be noted that the Jewish people’s folklore as a special form of transmitting social and cultural experience to new generations has a huge educational potential which should not be ignored in modern sociocultural conditions when there is a crisis of spiritual and moral life. It is the cultural and historical heritage in which people’s spiritual culture is preserved that serves as a key element of the society stability. In oral folk art, the results of education are stated which is a kind of generalization of pedagogical experience. The philosophical understanding of the role and significance of folklore in the Jewish people’s culture is presented as a generalized historiographical analysis on this subject. Fundamental works of such authors as: F. Brenye, F. Kandel, G. Gretz, S.M. Dubnov, A. David, A.A. Potebnya, V.I. Chicherov, V.V. Radlov, A.F. Khintibidze, V.I. Filonenko, as well as articles by such contemporary authors as: S. Moffitt, N. Abdimuratova, J. Abdimuratov, M. Galkina, A.A. Ivanov, Ya.S. Ivashchenko, E.V. Klimova and others served as the theoretical and methodological basis of this study. Proverbs, sayings, fairy tales and legends are the most capacious and informative ethnopedagogic phenomenon in Jewish people’s folklore. They are filled with high moral meaning and give characterological assessments of the personality from the positions what is good and what is bad. They embody wise advice, instructions acquired as a result of life practice, observations on a person, one’s habits and character, on the social relationships of people. As a result of the conducted research, the educational significance of oral folk art in Jewish ethnopedagogy is shown which extends to the entire ethnopedagogic science. The development of culture, spiritual and moral values embedded in folklore is one of the most important aspects of personality’s social formation, contributes to the effective preparation of the younger generations for life.