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In Search of Genre: Hebrew Enlightenment and Modernity

In Search of Genre: Hebrew Enlightenment and Modernity

Pelli, Moshe

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Literary CriticismReligion General

ISBN10: 0761833072
ISBN13: 9780761833079
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Nov 15 2005
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.75 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
In Search of Genre is an innovative study of the beginning of modernity in Hebrew and Jewish letters, which reflected the emerging changes in Jewish society toward the end of the 18th century in Germany. Young intellectual Jews aspired to revitalize the Jewish people by reviving the Hebrew language and Jewish culture through literature. Their use of new and renewed literary genres mark the transition from traditional Hebrew letters to modern Hebrew literature. Modernity in Hebrew letters is thus defined as the endeavor to emulate the contemporary European literatures and their prevailing aesthetics and poetics. This study also explores major criteria for identifying and evaluating Hebrew modernism exemplified by attempts to redefine Judaism.

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