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What Must Be Forgotten

The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine

By: Yael Chaver

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What Must Be Forgotten

The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine

By: Yael Chaver

As Zionism took root in Palestine, European Yiddish was employed within a dominant Hebrew context. A complex relationship between cultural politics and Jewish writing ensued that paved the way for modern Israeli culture. This enlightening volume reveals a previously unrecognized, alternative literature that flourished vigorously without legitimacy. Significant examples discussed include ethnically ambiguous fiction of Zalmen Brokhes, minority-oriented works of Avrom Rivess, and culturally pluralistic poetry by Rikuda Potash. The remote locales of these writers, coupled with the exuberant expressiveness of Yiddish, led to unique perceptions of Zionist endeavors in the Yishuv. Using rare archival material and personal interviews, What Must Be Forgotten unearths dimensions largely neglected in mainstream books on Yiddish and/or Hebrew studies.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815630506

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9780815630500

Etgar Keret’s Literature and the Ethos of Coping with Holocaust Remembrance

By: Yael Seliger

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Etgar Keret’s Literature and the Ethos of Coping with Holocaust Remembrance

By: Yael Seliger

This book highlights the need for a shift from thinking in terms of memories of traumatic events, to changeable modes of remembrance. The call for a fundamental change in approaches to commemorative remembrance is exemplified in literature written by the internationally acclaimed writer, Etgar Keret. Considered the most influential Israeli voice of his generation, Keret’s storytelling is in congruence with postmodern thinking. Through transferring remembrance of the Holocaust from stagnant Holocaust commemoration—museums and commemorative ceremonies—to unconventional settings, such as youngsters playing soccer or being forced to venture outdoors in a COVID-19 pandemic environment, Keret’s storytelling ushers in a unique approach to coping with remembrance of historical catastrophes. The book is a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in pursuing the subjects of Etgar Keret’s artistry, and literature written in a post modern, post Holocaust milieu about personal and collective traumatic remembrance.

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286

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527563146

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9781527563148

The Nation and the Child

Nation building in Hebrew children’s literature, 1930–1970

By: Yael Darr

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The Nation and the Child

Nation building in Hebrew children’s literature, 1930–1970

By: Yael Darr

The Nation and the Child – Nation Building in Hebrew Children’s Literature, 1930–1970 is the first comprehensive study to investigate the active role of children’s literature in the intensive cultural project of building a Hebrew nation. Which social actors and institutions participated in creating a Hebrew children’s literature? How did they envision their young readership and what new cultural roles did they prescribe for them through literary texts? How tolerant was the children’s literary field to alternative or even subversive national options and how did the perceptions of the “national child” change in the transition from the pre-state Jewish settlement in Palestine to a sovereign state? This book seeks to provide answers to such questions by focusing on the literary activities of leading taste-setters and writers for children, from the most intense period of Israeli nation building – the 1930s and 1940s, the two last decades of the pre-state era, and the 1950s, the first decade following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 – through the 1960s, when the nation-building fervor gradually waned.

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200

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027264031

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9789027264039

Recovered Roots

Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition

By: Yael Zerubavel

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Recovered Roots

Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition

By: Yael Zerubavel

In the years leading to the birth of Israel, Zerubavel shows, Zionist settlers in Palestine consciously sought to rewrite Jewish history by reshaping Jewish memory. Zerubavel focuses on the nationalist reinterpretation of the defense of Masada against the Romans in 73 C.E. and the Bar Kokhba revolt of 133-135; and on the transformation of the 1920 defense of a new Jewish settlement in Tel Hai into a national myth.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226981576

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9780226981574

What Must Be Forgotten

The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine

By: Yael Chaver

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The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine

By: Yael Chaver

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What Must Be Forgotten

What Must Be Forgotten

Etgar Keret’s Literature and the Ethos of Coping with Holocaust Remembrance

Etgar Keret’s Literature and the Ethos of Coping with Holocaust Remembrance

The Nation and the Child

The Nation and the Child

Recovered Roots

Recovered Roots

What Must Be Forgotten

What Must Be Forgotten

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