Would That Be Me! Ayin Hillel, an Environmental Writer
The work of Ayin Hillel (Hillel Omer, 1926-1990) projects strong ecological awareness and passionate dedication to the Land of Israel and its natural environment. This paper highlights the environmental themes in Hillel's poetry and essays, reflecting on the manner in which the personal and the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The National Association of Professors of Hebrew
2006
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Hebrew studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 343-361 |
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| Summary: | The work of Ayin Hillel (Hillel Omer, 1926-1990) projects strong ecological awareness and passionate dedication to the Land of Israel and its natural environment. This paper highlights the environmental themes in Hillel's poetry and essays, reflecting on the manner in which the personal and the ideological were meshed together in his poetics. It discusses Hillel's distaste for labeling and the tension between his propensity for fast movement through and intense association with and absorption of landforms on the one hand, and the less enthusiastic, at times apathetic tendencies of the reader/audience, whose collaborative role in the creative process is a fundamental expectation of Hillel the writer. The paper also points to the conflicted symbiosis between the natural world, struggling to come to terms with man's primacy, and man, accepting injury and loss of humanity as the price of existence within the natural world, as a major theme in Hillel's environmental work. |
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| ISSN: | 2158-1681 |
| Reference: | Errata "Corrigenda (2008)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2006.0034 |