LEADER 04428nam 22007695 450 001 9910553067803321 005 20240318131641.0 010 $a9783030818197 010 $a3030818195 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-81819-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6935063 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6935063 035 $a(CKB)21418403200041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-81819-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921418403200041 100 $a20220321d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature /$fby Iris Parush 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (413 pages) 225 1 $aNew Directions in Book History,$x2634-6125 311 08$aPrint version: Parush, Iris The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030818180 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Literacy: Theory, Methodology, Ethnography -- 3. Reading without Writing and the Myth of Universal Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society -- 4. The Primacy of Speech over Writing in Hasidic Society -- 5. The Primacy of Speech over Writing in Mintagdic Society -- 6. The Written Torah and the Oral Torah: Class, Gender, and the Cultural Images of the Corpora -- 7. Intentional Ignorance of the Hebrew Language -- 8. From Mother Tongue to Father Tongue: The Study of Grammar, Reading, and Writing in Hebrew as a Male Maskilic Rite of Passage -- 9. "I Made Myself a Notebook of Blank Paper": The Sin of Writing and the Constitution of the Subject -- 10. Epilogue: Writing, Tradition, and Modernity in Only for the Lord Alone by S. Y. Agnon. 330 $aThe Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature contends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and secularization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society were marked not by a reading revolution but rather by a writing revolution, that is, by a revolutionary change in this society's attitude toward writing. Combining socio-cultural history and literary studies and drawing on a large corpus of autobiographies, memoirs, and literary works of the period, the book sets out to explain the curious absence of writing skills and Hebrew grammar from the curriculum of the traditional Jewish education system in Eastern Europe. It shows that traditional Jewish society maintained a conspicuously oral literacy culture, colored by fears of writing and suspicions toward publication. It is against this background that the young yeshiva students undergoing enlightenment started to "sin by writing," turning writing and publication in Hebrew into the cornerstone of their constitution as autonomous, enlightened, male Jewish subjects, and setting the foundations for the rise of modern Hebrew literature. 410 0$aNew Directions in Book History,$x2634-6125 606 $aBooks$xHistory 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aJews$xStudy and teaching 606 $aPrinting 606 $aPublishers and publishing 606 $aEconomics and literature 606 $aHistory of the Book 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aJewish Studies 606 $aPrinting and Publishing 606 $aLiterature Business 615 0$aBooks$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aJews$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aPrinting. 615 0$aPublishers and publishing. 615 0$aEconomics and literature. 615 14$aHistory of the Book. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aJewish Studies. 615 24$aPrinting and Publishing. 615 24$aLiterature Business. 676 $a002.09 676 $a892.409 700 $aParush$b Iris$01216135 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910553067803321 996 $aThe sin of writing and the rise of modern Hebrew literature$92815612 997 $aUNINA