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Nativism, Zionism, and Beyond

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Nativism, Zionism, and Beyond

By: Hannan Hever

A collection of post-Zionist reading of poets Esther Raab, Haim Gouri, and Moshe Dor.

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Syracuse University

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0815681801

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9780815681809

Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War

Essays on Philology and Responsibility

By: Hannan Hever

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Essays on Philology and Responsibility

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Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility is the first book-length study that examines the conspicuous absence of the Palestinian Nakba in modern Hebrew literature. Through a rigorous reading of canonical Hebrew literary texts, the author addresses the general failure of Hebrew literature to take responsibility for the Nakba. The book illustrates how the language of modern Hebrew poetry and fiction reflects symptoms of Israeli national violence, in which the literary language produces a picture of Palestine as an arena where the violent clash between the perpetrators and the victims takes place. In doing so, the author develops a new and critical paradigm for reflecting on the moral responsibility of literature and the ethics of reading. The book includes close readings of the works of Avot Yeshurun, S. Yizhar, Nathan Alterman, Yehuda Amichai, Yitzhak Laor, and Amos Oz, among others.

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BRILL

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9004377603

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9789004377608

Suddenly, the Sight of War

Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s

By: Hannan Hever

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Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s

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Suddenly, the Sight of War is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948. In it, renowned literary scholar Hannan Hever sheds light on how the views and poetic practices of poets changed as they became aware of the extreme violence in Europe toward the Jews. In dealing with the difficult topics of the Shoah, Natan Alterman's 1944 publication of The Poems of the Ten Plagues proved pivotal. His work inspired the next generation of poets like Haim Guri, as well as detractors like Amir Gilboa. Suddenly, the Sight of War also explores the relations between the poetry of the struggle for national independence and the genre of war-reportage, uniquely prevalent at the time. Hever concludes his genealogy with a focus on the feminine reaction to the War of Independence showing how women writers such as Lea Goldberg and Yocheved Bat-Miryam subverted war poetry at the end of the 1940s. Through the work of these remarkable poets, we learn how a culture transcended seemingly unspeakable violence.

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Stanford University Press

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0804797188

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9780804797184

Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War

Essays on Philology and Responsibility

By: Hannan Hever

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Essays on Philology and Responsibility

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Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism

Chapters in Literary Politics

By: Hannan Hever

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Chapters in Literary Politics

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Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of the Hasidism, the Jewish Enlightenment, and Zionism interacted with each other in the nineteenth century. Hannan Hever uses postcolonial theories and theories of nationality to analyze how Jews used literature to make sense of hostility directed toward Jews from their European "host" countries and to set forth their own ideas and preferences regarding their status, control, and treatment. In doing so, Hever theorizes the Enlightenment's intellectual aims and cultural influences, tracking how the models of integration crucial to Haskalah gave way to Jewish nationalism in the twentieth century. The readings in this book are theoretically informed, setting forward novel claims based on detailed textual analyses of hasidic tales, Haskalah satires, and Zionist narratives. Thus, this book tackles a major interpretative problem visible at the core of modern Hebrew literature--its radical difficulty in distinguishing between the theological components of modern Jewish discourse and its national identity.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512825085

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Suddenly, the Sight of War

Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s

By: Hannan Hever

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Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon

Nation Building and Minority Discourse

By: Hannan Hever

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Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon

Nation Building and Minority Discourse

By: Hannan Hever

A people's writings can play a dramatic role in nation building, as the development of modern Hebrew literature powerfully illustrates. Since the end of the nineteenth century, Hebrew writers in Europe and Palestine/Israel have produced texts and consolidated moments in the shaping of national identity. Yet, this process has not always been a unified and continuous one. The processes of canon formation and the suppression of heterodox discourses have been played out publicly and vociferously. Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon offers a sweeping view of the entirety of modern Hebrew literature, from Berdichevski and Agnon to Shammas and Habiby, shedding light on the moments of rupture and reversal which have undermined efforts to construct a hegemonic Zionist narrative. It provides a model for understanding the relations between minority and majority voices in postcolonial situations, showing these processes working and changing over time, from the earliest days of the creation of a labor Zionist sensibility for literature to Israeli state culture and the discourses of Arab otherness. By illuminating both the process of canon formation as well as the voices excluded from the canon, Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon offers a powerful alternative reading of twentieth century Hebrew fiction.

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NYU Press

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0814736440

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Nativism, Zionism, and Beyond

Nativism, Zionism, and Beyond

Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War

Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War

Suddenly, the Sight of War

Suddenly, the Sight of War

Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War

Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War

Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism

Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism

Suddenly, the Sight of War

Suddenly, the Sight of War

Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon

Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon

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