... the perspective of a modern Hebrew poet and Orientalist scholar, Elhanan Yehuda Kron, who travels from Palestine to Berlin to pursue his research on the Islamic origins of Jewish mysticism. Through Kron 1 s experiences in Berlin in the 1930s, the novel calls attention to how the origin of modern secular Hebrew...

...Neta Stahl Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact . By Brenner Naomi . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2016 . 320 p . © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 348 “forgets to be” and imagines himself at one...

...Naomi Brenner Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century . By Schachter Allison . New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 198 p. © 2014 by University of Oregon 2014 Works Cited Anderson Benedict . Imagined Communities...

... Mocher Sforim . Tel Aviv : Dvir , 1947 . 399 – 405 . Print . ———. “Shem and Japheth on the Train.” Trans. Lever Walter . Modern Hebrew Literature . Ed. Alter Robert . Springfield : Behrman House , 1975 . 15 – 40 . Print . Agnon Shmuel Yosef . “Ba-derekh...

..., and Imaginism to create his own idiosyncratic Hebrew modernism. At the center of his modernist poetry and manifestoes is a chameleon-like lyrical “I” that dominates the text as it unfolds. Shlonsky brilliantly used a new literary Hebrew to create himself as a revolutionary modernist poet. Like many of his...

... suggests that Hebrew phrasing and poetics of mood offer a potent concept for the analysis of epistemological foundations of early twentieth-century modernism in Hebrew literature while drawing an outline for a wider, comparative view on early twentieth-century European modernism in light of the concept...

... into the early modern era, animal skins were used to create vellum or parchment, and animal bones were the source of the glue used in binding. Balak has Hebrew letters—a kind of holy script—written upon his fur; so, too, Arzef is not only a taxidermist but also a kind of bookmaker—an artisan working with animal...

...Marc Caplan [email protected] Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution , by Karen Grumberg . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2019 . 311 + xiv pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023 Though often hailed as a miracle, the modern...

... participating in a broader ethical dialogue about victimhood and oppression. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Lea Goldberg Edgar Allan Poe Hebrew gothic temporality sanctuary victimhood Works Cited Abramson Glenda . Drama and Ideology in Modern Israel . Cambridge : Cambridge UP...

..., Mark. Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880–1948 . Berkeley: California UP, 2005 . Levy, Lital. “From Baghdad to Bialik with Love: A Re-appropriation of Modern Hebrew Poetry, 1933.” Comparative Literature Studies 42 .3 ( 2005 ): 135 -54. “Limdu Ivrit...

... is written in a peculiar language—biblical or Rabbinic Hebrew, which is far removed from modern spoken or written Hebrew. In other words, these contemporary dystopias are composed in a premodern linguistic register, which all three novels call attention to as such. My other, related line of inquiry...

... color their por- trayal of the nation and of the modern individual’s encounter with daily life. As I have argued elsewhere, it is this tragic hue and sensibility that distinguishes late nineteenth-century nationalist-oriented Hebrew works from their mid-nineteenth- century predecessors, as well...

... in the Humanities 30 . 1–2 ( 2003 ): 46 – 59 . Print . ———. Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader's Guide . New York : Syracuse UP , 2011 . Print . Shammas Anton . Arabesqot. (Hebrew) . Tel Aviv : Am Oved Publishers , 1986 . Print . ———. “An Arab Voice in Israel.” New York Times...

... and theologian, the prose works of rhetoricians began to be divided into cola as well. Jerome himself used cola in his translations of Hebrew scripture, qualifying that he intended not to render the prophets, for instance, in verse but rather to aid the reading process (23–24). 7 In modern biblical...

... the essay examines Kashua's active participation in the Israeli (Hebrew) public sphere and the way in which his writings take part in the construction of a critical minority discourse. By this I do not simply mean the obvious: that, as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Kashua occupies a minority position...

... . Print . Heller Joseph . From Brit Shalom to Ichud: Judah Leib Magnes and the Struggle for a Binational State in Palestine . Jerusalem : The Hebrew University Magnes Press , 2003 . Print . Hersh Seymour . The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy...

...), ethno-religious communities (such as Jews), and languages (such as Hebrew) from their marginal status, so as to promote a transnational, multilingual and cross-ethnic study of Maghrebian literature. But my comparative reading of the novels is also aimed at broadening the context within which Modern...

... of eastern European culture on three fronts: by European languages (e.g., Russian, Polish, German) on the Continent; by English in America; and by an increasingly dominant Hebrew-speaking society in Palestine. In the nineteenth century, the rise of modern Yiddish literature was largely coterminous...

.... Hochberg, Gil. “`The Dispossession of Hebrew': Anton Shammas's Arabesques and the Cultural Space of Language.” Crisis and Memory: The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative . Ed. Ken Seigneurie. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2003 . 51 -66. Howe, Irving. “News from Elsewhere.” Rev...

...,” offering instead nuanced readings of rarely read literary texts. Tracing the influence of European Orien- talist tendencies on modern Hebrew literature from the late nineteenth century to the present, Peleg gives an extensive and lucid account of the manner by which modern Hebrew literature...