The Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138918665 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 202 str.

Neta Stahl

Opis

The twentieth century brought significant changes for many Jews. Some of these were dramatic, even apocalyptic, while others were more gradual shifts in ways of life and worldviews. As traditional lifestyles eroded, Jews began to develop a new understanding of the divine and its place in their lives. Twentieth Century Jewish Literature examines how these radical changes manifested themselves in modern Jewish literature, by tracing the ways in which the Jewish writers of this period imagined and depicted the divine. In order to understand these writers' approach to the representation of God, it considers distinct strains in Jewish thought, which find their roots both within the Jewish culture and also come from outside Judaism. This book also locates the particular case of modern Jewish literature within the wider context of western literature and culture, exploring how modern Jewish literature can challenge scholarly assumptions of modernist traits in post-Christian western cultures and literatures. This book would be of interest to students and scholars of Religion and Literature, Jewish Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Modern Intellectual History.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Fin-de-Siécle Jewish Writers on the God of Nature  2. Theomorphism and Modern Jewish Literature’s Search for the Divine: Brenner and Shlonsky as a Case Study  3. Uri Zvi in Front of God  4. Narrative and Providence in the Fiction of S. Y. Agnon  5. "And You Will Hand Me into the Hands of Man": God in the Antiwar Poetry of Yehuda Amichai and Dahlia Ravikovitch  Epilogue: Pantheism and Its Discontents

O autorze

Neta Stahl is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the director of the Stulman Program in Jewish Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Other and Brother: The Figure of Jesus in the 20th-Century Jewish Literary Landscape (2013) and Drawings of the Heart: The Poetics of Yoel Hoffmann (2017), and the editor of Jesus Among the Jews (2012). Her articles appeared, among others, in Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies Quarterly, Religion & Literature, Prooftexts, and the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.