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In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of interest among
both secular and religious Israelis in Talmudic stories. This
growing fascination with Talmudic stories has been inspired by
contemporary Israeli writers who have sought to make readers aware
of the special qualities of these well-crafted narratives that
portray universal human situations, including marriages,
relationships between parents and children, power struggles between
people, and the challenge of trying to live a good life. The Charm
of Wise Hesitancy explores the resurgence of interest in Talmudic
stories in Israel and presents some of the most popular Talmudic
stories in contemporary Israeli culture, as well as creative
interpretations of those stories by Israeli writers, thereby
providing readers with an opportunity to consider how these stories
may be relevant to their own lives.
In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of interest among
both secular and religious Israelis in Talmudic stories. This
growing fascination with Talmudic stories has been inspired by
contemporary Israeli writers who have sought to make readers aware
of the special qualities of these well-crafted narratives that
portray universal human situations, including marriages,
relationships between parents and children, power struggles between
people, and the challenge of trying to live a good life. The Charm
of Wise Hesitancy explores the resurgence of interest in Talmudic
stories in Israel and presents some of the most popular Talmudic
stories in contemporary Israeli culture, as well as creative
interpretations of those stories by Israeli writers, thereby
providing readers with an opportunity to consider how these stories
may be relevant to their own lives.
In recent decades, a group of second generation religious Zionist
West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political
messianic ideology of the first generation of settlers and have
begun to explore poetry as a mode of individual self expression.
Based on interviews of eight key figures in this new trend and an
analysis of fifty works by these poets, "Beyond Political
Messianism: The Poetry of the Second Generation of Religious
Zionist Settlers" tells the story of how they revolutionised the
religious Zionist settler culture by moving poetry writing into the
mainstream of that culture, and how they introduced into the world
of secular Israeli literature images and language styles drawn from
their lives as religiously observant Jews. Among the themes central
to these poets' concerns are: the formation of a religious identity
based on faith and ritual observance, the relationship of the
contemporary Jew to the Bible and to traditional Jewish texts,
appropriate ways to write about erotic experience, and the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Does David Still Play Before You? explores the ways that
contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible
in their poetry. Through close readings of fifty poems, featured in
their original Hebrew and in English translation, David Jacobson
studies how Israeli poets respond to and incorporate the Bible in
their work and reflect on the presence of the Bible in contemporary
Israeli culture. The book provides a stunning collection of
powerful and moving voices. Jacobson organizes the works according
to subjects that recur with great frequency in Israeli poetry based
on the Bible: the Arab-Israel conflict, responses to the Holocaust,
relations between men and women, and modern challenges to
traditional religious faith. Jacobson's literary analysis is
informed by an astute awareness of the role of the Bible in Israeli
culture. This volume is the first comprehensive study of the use of
the Bible by Israeli poets, a phenomenon that is central to the
development of Israeli poetry.
In an anthology that is both scholarly and accessible to readers
of contemporary poetry, David C. Jacobson examines the search for
God in the work of six prominent Israeli poets Yehuda Amichai,
Admiel Kosman, Rivka Miriam, Zelda Mishkovsky, Hava Pinhas-Cohen,
and Asher Reich.
In the book s introduction, Jacobson explores the central role
that poetry has always played and continues to play in our
understanding of the religious experience. The work of each poet is
then preceded by an introduction which establishes the historical
and biographical contexts of the poems discussed. The poetry
appears in the original Hebrew as well as Jacobson s graceful
English translations."
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