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Hebrew Writing of the First World War (Hardcover, New)
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Hebrew Writing of the First World War (Hardcover, New)
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Almost one and a quarter million Jewish soldiers took part in the
First World War, spread through the armies on both sides of the
conflict. Their numbers were more or less in proportion to the
Jewish populations in the countries involved, and sometimes even
greater. There is comparatively little writing about this
experience in Hebrew. Those who did write novels, poetry, stories,
memoirs and diaries in Hebrew were either serving soldiers on the
Eastern Front and in Palestine, or civilians who were caught up in
the war in one way or another. Their work reflected not only the
tribulations of the trenches, but also the hardship suffered by
civilians. Most of the Hebrew writers in Europe, including Saul
Tchernichowsky, U.Z. Greenberg and Yehuda Ya'ari, confront the
Russian pogroms in their work. Starvation, illness and banishment
were the lot of the Jews in Jerusalem and the Lower Galilee, and
the appalling situation of the Jewish refugees was represented by
memoirists, journalists and fiction writers such as Aharon Reuveni,
L.A. Orloff and Y.H. Brenner, all caught up in the trials of the
wartime yishuv. Woven into their views of the war is a portrait of
the major transition taking place in Jewish political culture at
the time, and their growing identification with Zionism.
Interesting aspects emerge from these texts: Jewish nationalism
became a crucial theme in view of what the Jews considered to be
the permanent setting of Europe's sun. The texts raise the question
of genre: fiction in relation to autobiography. Also the trauma of
the war led to an abandonment of the prevailing literary styles and
structures, and the Hebrew writers adopted some of the new
modernist trends, Expressionism in particular.
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