Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0804762937
ISBN13:9780804762939
Release Date:December 2011
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:544 Pages
Weight:1.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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