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Sanctuary in the Wilderness - A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry (Hardcover)
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Sanctuary in the Wilderness - A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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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. These American
Hebraists created schools, journals, newspapers, and, most of all,
a high literary culture focused on producing poetry. "Sanctuary in
the Wilderness" is a critical introduction to American Hebrew
poetry, focusing on a dozen key poets. This secular poetry began
with a preoccupation with the situation of the individual in a
disenchanted world and then moved outward to engage American vistas
and Jewish fate and hope in midcentury. American Hebrew poets hoped
to be read in both Palestine and America, but were disappointed on
both scores. Several moved to Israel and connected with the vital
literary scene there, but most stayed and persisted in the cause of
American Hebraism.
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