Sanctuary in the wilderness : a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry / / Alan Mintz

• Autore: Mintz Alan L.
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (758 p.)
• Disciplina: 892.4/1509973
• Soggetto topico: Hebrew poetry, Modern - United States - History and criticism; Hebrew poetry, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism; Hebrew language - United States - Revival
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-[505]) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Sanctuary in the wilderness
• ISBN: 0-8047-7910-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815900703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.