Here and Now
(2008)History, Nationalism, and Realism in Modern Hebrew Fiction (judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
A non fiction book by Todd Hasak-Lowy
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 works
of other Jewish authors served as the intellectual and
political leadership to the not yet fully amalgamated
nineteenth-century diaspora.
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 works
of other Jewish authors served as the intellectual and
political leadership to the not yet fully amalgamated
nineteenth-century diaspora.
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