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Ashkenazim
Author_Yigal Schwartz
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631664766
- Weight: 330g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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The book invites readers to a reexamination of Modern Hebrew literature and culture from complementary critical perspectives, through readings of texts from this corpus. Among the issues explored are the Eastern European Jewish and Central European Jewish versions of this literature and their battle for cultural hegemony; the narrative of rebirth, which requires a transitional, «pagan» developmental phase in which man and nation are united through «primitive texts»; the challenges of literary «occupied territory» and the «ghost language», Hebrew, with its religious «baggage»; and South America on the map of recent Israeli literature.
Yigal Schwartz is Director of the Heksherim Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is also senior editor at Kinneret Zmora Dvir Publishing.
