Here and Now: History, Nationalism, and Realism in Modern Hebrew Fiction Contributor(s): Hasak-Lowy, Todd (Author) |
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ISBN: 081563157X ISBN-13: 9780815631576 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Jewish |
Dewey: 892.435 |
LCCN: 2007050731 |
Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.54" W x 9.19" (1.00 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The emergence of Zionism in the late nineteenth-century and the evolution of Zionist society in Palestine were profoundly influenced by the Hebrew literature of the day. As Todd Hasak-Lowy cogently argues in this book, Hebrew authors wrote with the belief that accurately representing Jewish society--including its history--in their texts would both record the past and establish its future course. Hasak-Lowy traces the tensions between the extraliterary--the historical, social, and political--and the literary--the aesthetic, formal, and stylistic--in Hebrew fiction. Focusing on canonical Hebrew texts by S.Y. Abramovitz, Y. H. Brenner, S.Y. Agnon, and S. Yizhar, the author establishes how their works and the worksof other Jewish authors served as the intellectual and political leadership to the not yet fully amalgamated nineteenth-century diaspora. |