By Todd Hasak-Lowy

ISBN-10: 081563157X

ISBN-13: 9780815631576

The emergence of Zionism within the past due 19th century and the evolution of Zionist society in Palestine have been profoundly prompted via the Hebrew literature of the day. As Todd Hasak-Lowy cogently argues during this e-book, Hebrew authors wrote with the assumption that adequately representing Jewish society - together with its heritage - of their texts might either list the earlier and identify its destiny course.Hasak-Lowy strains the tensions among the extraliterary - the ancient, social, and political - and the literary - the cultured, formal, and stylistic - in Hebrew fiction. concentrating on canonical texts via S. Y. Abramovitz, Y. H. Brenner, S. Y. Agnon, and S. Yizhar, the writer establishes how smooth Hebrew writers galvanized Jewish nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe and later articulated its personality in twentieth-century Palestine.

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