The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature
contends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and
secularization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish
society were marked not by a reading revolution but rather by a
writing revolution, that is, by a revolutionary change in this
society's attitude toward writing. Combining socio-cultural history
and literary studies and drawing on a large corpus of
autobiographies, memoirs, and literary works of the period, the
book sets out to explain the curious absence of writing skills and
Hebrew grammar from the curriculum of the traditional Jewish
education system in Eastern Europe. It shows that traditional
Jewish society maintained a conspicuously oral literacy culture,
colored by fears of writing and suspicions toward publication. It
is against this background that the young yeshiva students
undergoing enlightenment started to “sin by writing,” turning
writing and publication in Hebrew into the cornerstone of their
constitution as autonomous, enlightened, male Jewish subjects, and
setting the foundations for the rise of modern Hebrew literature.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
|
| Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
| Series: |
New Directions in Book History |
| Release date: |
March 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Iris Parush
|
| Translators: |
Jeffrey M. Green
|
| Contributors: |
Tamar Parush
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
407 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2022 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-081821-0 |
| Subtitles: |
Hebrew
|
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
3-03-081821-7 |
| Barcode: |
9783030818210 |
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