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SANCTUARY IN THE WILDERNESS
SANCTUARY IN THE WILDERNESS
Subtitle:
A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry
Book Category:
History > Jewish
Author:
Alan Mintz
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780804762939
Price:
USD 65.00
Publication Year:
2011

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Stanford University Press.

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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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