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Hayim Nahman Bialik

Poet of Hebrew

By: Avner Holtzman

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A moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet. He had only published a single collection, but his deeply personal poetry established a profound link between the secular and the traditional that would become paramount to a national Jewish identity in the twentieth century. When he died unexpectedly in 1934, the outpouring of grief was unprecedented, confirming him as a father figure for the Zionist movement in Palestine, and around the world. Using extensive research and elegant readings of Bialik’s poems, Avner Holtzman investigates the poet’s dramatic life, complex personality, beloved verse, and continued popularity. This clear-eyed and thorough biography explores how Bialik overcame intense personal struggles to become a charismatic literary leader at the core of modern Hebrew culture.

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264

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Yale University Press

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0300227744

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9780300227741

A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews

By: Avner Falk

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A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews

By: Avner Falk

This includes the evolution of the Hebrew religion as a projective response to the inner conflicts produced by the human family; the sociopsychological development of the Israelite kingdoms in Canaan; the fascinating duality of Jewish life in the "Diaspora"; and the emotional ties of the Jews to their idealized motherland from the Babylonian exile to modern political Zionism.

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868

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838636608

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9780838636602

Agnon’s Story

A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon

By: Avner Falk

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Agnon’s Story

A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon

By: Avner Falk

Agnon’s Story is the first complete psychoanalytic biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon. It investigates the hidden links between his stories and his biography. Agnon was deeply ambivalent about the most important emotional “objects” of his life, in particular his “father-teacher,” his ailing, depressive and symbiotic mother, his emotionally-fragile wife, whom he named after her and his adopted “home-land” of Israel. Yet he maintained an incredible emotional resiliency and ability to “sublimate” his emotional pain into works of art. This biography seeks to investigate the emotional character of his literary canon, his ambivalence to his family and the underlying narcissistic grandiosity of his famous “modesty.”

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BRILL

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9004367780

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9789004367784

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Hayim Nahman Bialik

Hayim Nahman Bialik

A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews

A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews

Agnon’s Story

Agnon’s Story

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