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Jewish Writing and Identity in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Jewish Writing and Identity in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Jewish History and Identity
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From the 1880s, when systematic pogroms in Russia led to massive
emigration, there have been two themes in Jewish history -
persecution, culminating in the holocaust, and the corresponding
search for a place in the world, which led to emigration to
America, the rise of Zionism and the emergence of the State of
Israel. In spite of these factors, Jews throughout the world have
maintained their sense of identity and their cohesion as a people.
One factor which has enabled them to do this has been the formation
of an ideological vision of themselves - a sense of Jewishness -
and one major way in which this ideology expresses itself is
through the contributions by Jews to literature and thought. This
book, originally published in 1982 by an established authority on
Hebrew and Israeli literature, analyses the characteristics of the
Jewish sense of identity as it appears in twentieth-century Jewish
literature. It considers the work of a variety of authors who wrote
in different periods and countries, and shows how their Jewish
background pervades their writing. Some of the authors discussed
are Franz Kafka, Osip Mandelstam, Henry Roth, Giorgio Bassani, S.Y.
Agnon, Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer. This book will be
particularly useful since a complete understanding of the Jews in
the twentieth century can only be gained by appreciating their
literary and intellectual achievements.
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