
SANCTUARY IN THE WILDERNESS |
Subtitle:
A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry
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Book Category:
History > Jewish
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Author:
Alan Mintz
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780804762939
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Price:
USD 65.00
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Publication Year:
2011
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Publisher Info
Stanford University Press. InquiryBook Description
The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution. But the overwhelming majority of Jewish emigrants from Eastern Europe settled in America, and a passionate kernel among them believed that Hebrew provided the vehicle for modernizing the Jewish people while maintaining their connection to Zion.
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