03150nam 2200649 450 991081590070332120210708155345.00-8047-7910-410.1515/9780804779104(CKB)2670000000152422(EBL)805150(OCoLC)779140174(SSID)ssj0000664366(PQKBManifestationID)11389981(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000664366(PQKBWorkID)10631358(PQKB)11577791(StDuBDS)EDZ0000128082(DE-B1597)563569(DE-B1597)9780804779104(Au-PeEL)EBL805150(CaPaEBR)ebr10861561(OCoLC)1198929652(MiAaPQ)EBC805150(EXLCZ)99267000000015242220110728h20122012 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSanctuary in the wilderness a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry /Alan MintzStanford, California :Stanford University Press,[2012]©20121 online resource (758 p.)Stanford studies in Jewish history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-6293-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-[505]) and index.Hebrew knights in a new land -- The apotheosis of Hebrew -- Benjamin Nahum Silkiner -- Israel Efros -- Ephraim E. Lisitzky -- Abraham Samuel Schwartz -- Hillel Bavli -- Shimon Ginzburg -- H.A. Friedland -- Moshe Feinstein -- Eisig Silberschlag -- Simon Halkin -- Abraham Regelson -- Gabriel Preil -- On Native American grounds -- New England, the nineteenth century -- California gold -- In the tents of Cush -- Urban enclosures.The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution. But the overwhelming majority of Jewish emigrants from Eastern Europe settled in America, and a passionate kernel among them believed that Hebrew provided the vehicle for modernizing the Jewish people while maintaining their connection to Zion. These American Hebraists created schools,Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.Hebrew poetry, ModernUnited StatesHistory and criticismHebrew poetry, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismHebrew languageUnited StatesRevivalHebrew poetry, ModernHistory and criticism.Hebrew poetry, ModernHistory and criticism.Hebrew languageRevival.892.4/1509973Mintz Alan L.862488MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815900703321Sanctuary in the wilderness3987233UNINA