..., in Hebrew. By analyzing these parallel events, the article suggests that the matsav ruah of the early 1900s was a new form of self-experience and that this new form stimulated original poetic language created by a cohort of Hebrew, East European writers, including Yosef Hayim Brenner, Uri Nissan Gnessin...

... does not need to make the case for Goldberg’s modernism, which is widely acknowledged, but she aptly situates the text with respect to both European and Jewish-language modernist writers, from Uri Nissan Gnessin to Ibsen and Strindberg. She also tackles issues of female subjectivity, which...

... that all of these people speak an old language cov- ered with rust. This was not his language” (90). Kron even surmises that the medieval Hebrew poet Ibn Gabirol or the modernist prose writer Uri Nissan Gnessin would feel the same suffocation sitting with these modern Jews. orientalism...