This book is a coat of many colors. It is a collection of essays
written in English by the distinguished Israeli literary and
cultural critic, Benjamin Harshav, covering the whole span of
Jewish culture. The essays combine a wide historical scope with
meticulously detailed close analyses of the art of poetry. They
discuss general aspects of Jewish history, such as the demographic
situation of the Jews in Eastern Europe and the phenomenon of
exuberant multilingualism, Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon's Only
Yesterday, the religious/secular nexus in modern Israel, and Herman
Kruk's diaries of the last days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania. We
find here condensed yet subtle interpretations of modern Hebrew
poems and a comprehensive essay on American poetry in the Yiddish
language. Of special importance is the study of the changing formal
systems of Hebrew verse from the Bible to the present.
This book is a companion volume to Harshav's Explorations in
Poetics, representing his contributions to Israeli literary theory.
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