Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: chapters in literary politics

"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. Author Hannan Hever uses post-colonial theories and theories of nati...

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Main Author: Ḥever, Ḥanan 1953- (Author)
Other Authors: Hever, Hannan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2023]
Series:Jewish culture and contexts
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Summary:"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. Author Hannan Hever uses post-colonial theories and theories of nationality to analyze how Jews used literature to tackle the "The Jewish Question," and set forth their own ideas and preferences regarding their status, control, and treatment as European Jews. 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 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"--
Item Description:"Originally published in Hebrew as Hasidut, Haskalah, Zionut : Perakim be-Politikah sifrutit, by Bar-Ilan University Press 2021. English translation copyright ©2023 University of Pennsylvania Press"--title page verso
Physical Description:247 pages 24 cm
ISBN:9781512825077

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