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. Hannan Hever uses postcolonial theories and theories of nationality to ana...

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Main Author: Hever, Hannan (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2023]
In:Year: 2023
Series/Journal:Jewish Culture and Contexts
Further subjects:B Hebrew literature
B rational, satire
B politics
B zionism
B Micha Joseph Berdyczewski
B Modern Jewish literature
B Jewish Enlightenment
B maskilic
B postcolonial theory
B zionist
B diaspora (word)
B Jewish Question
B Hasidism
B Hebrew literature, Modern History and criticism
B Hasidic tales
B secularization
B literature
B Isaac Erter
B Zionism in literature
B nationalism
B Haskalah
B maskilim
B Hasidic
B modernity
B History / Jewish
B Sefer Ḥasidim
B nineteenth century
B cultural history
B Zionism
B translation
B Hasidim Legends
B Hasidim Legends History and criticism
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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. 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
ISBN:1512825085
Access:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.9783/9781512825084