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 worksWe publiceren alleen reviews die voldoen aan de voorwaarden voor reviews. Bekijk onze voorwaarden voor reviews.