In Search of Genre: Hebrew Enlightenment and Modernity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761833079)

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In Search of Genre: Hebrew Enlightenment and Modernity

$89.95

In Search of Genre: Hebrew Enlightenment and Modernity

$89.95
Format: Paperback
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In Search of Genre is an innovative study of the beginning of modernity in Hebrew and Jewish letters, which reflected the emerging changes in Jewish society toward the end of the 18th century in Germany. Young intellectual Jews aspired to revitalize the Jewish people by reviving the Hebrew language and Jewish culture through literature. Their use of new and renewed literary genres mark the transition from traditional Hebrew letters to modern Hebrew literature. Modernity in Hebrew letters is thus defined as the endeavor to emulate the contemporary European literatures and their prevailing aesthetics and poetics. This study also explores major criteria for identifying and evaluating Hebrew modernism exemplified by attempts to redefine Judaism.

Author: Moshe Pelli
ISBN-10: 0761833072
ISBN-13: 9780761833079
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2005
Pages: 362
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.75d
By Moshe Pelli
By Moshe Pelli
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Moshe Pelli is the Abe and Tess Wise Professor in Judaic Studies and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of Central Florida. Professor Pelli is a leading authority on the Hebrew Enlightenment and the author of six scholarly books and numerous studies on the subject.

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