The New Tradition Essays on Modern Hebrew Literature |
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| Author:
| Shaked, Gershon |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87820-250-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2006 |
| Publisher: | Hebrew Union College Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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The Jewish struggle for survival as a spiritual entity after the cohesiveness of Jewish communal life began to disintegrate in the latter decades of the nineteenth century spawned a new tradition---a modern secular Hebraic cultural tradition. These seventeen essays by Israel's late esteemed literary critic, Gershon Shaked (1929-2006), explore the evolution of that new tradition, tracing its major processes and identifying central stages in the development of new canonical texts.
The Jewish struggle for survival as a spiritual entity after the cohesiveness of Jewish communal life began to disintegrate in the latter decades of the nineteenth century spawned a new tradition---a modern secular Hebraic cultural tradition. These seventeen essays by Israel's late esteemed literary critic, Gershon Shaked (1929-2006), explore the evolution of that new tradition, tracing its major processes and identifying central stages in the development of new canonical texts.