The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself

The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself
Author: Stanley Burnshaw
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780814324851

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A collection of modern Hebrew poetry that presents the poems in the original Hebrew, with an English phonetic transcription.

Strange Cocktail

Strange Cocktail
Author: Adriana X. Jacobs
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2018-07-23
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 047212403X

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For centuries, poets have turned to translation for creative inspiration. Through and in translation, poets have introduced new poetic styles, languages, and forms into their own writing, sometimes changing the course of literary history in the process. Strange Cocktail is the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon in modern Hebrew literature of the late nineteenth century to the present day. Its chapters on Esther Raab, Leah Goldberg, Avot Yeshurun, and Harold Schimmel offer close readings that examine the distinct poetics of translation that emerge from reciprocal practices of writing and translating. Working in a minor literary vernacular, the translation strategies that these poets employed allowed them to create and participate in transnational and multilingual poetic networks. Strange Cocktail thereby advances a comparative and multilingual reframing of modern Hebrew literature that considers how canons change and are undone when translation occupies a central position—how lines of influence and affiliation are redrawn and literary historiographies are revised when the work of translation occupies the same status as an original text, when translating and writing go hand in hand.

Poets on the Edge

Poets on the Edge
Author:
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0791477142

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Poets on the Edge introduces four decades of Israel's most vigorous poetic voices. Selected and translated by author Tsipi Keller, the collection showcases a generous sampling of work from twenty-seven established and emerging poets, bringing many to readers of English for the first time. Thematically and stylistically innovative, the poems chart the evolution of new currents in Hebrew poetry that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s and, in breaking from traditional structures of line, rhyme, and meter, have become as liberated as any contemporary American verse. Writing on politics, sexual identity, skepticism, intellectualism, community, country, love, fear, and death, these poets are daring, original, and direct, and their poems are matched by the freshness and precision of Keller's translations.

Modern Hebrew Poetry

Modern Hebrew Poetry
Author: Ruth Finer Mintz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1968
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse

The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse
Author: T. Carmi
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 964
Release: 2006-06-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0141966602

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This stunning anthology gathers together the riches of poetry in Hebrew from 'The Song of Deborah' to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the development of piyut, or liturgical poetry, and retell episodes from the Bible and exalt the glory of God. Medieval works introduce secular ideas in love poems, wine songs and rhymed narratives, as well as devotional verse for specific religious rituals. Themes such as the longing for the homeland run through the ages, especially in verse written after the rise of the Zionist movement, while poems of the last century marry Biblical references with the horrors of the Holocaust. Together these works create a moving portrait of a rich and varied culture through the last 3,000 years.

A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry

A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry
Author: Miryam Segal
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-01-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 025300358X

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With scrupulous attention to landmark poetic texts and to educational and critical discourse in early 20th-century Palestine, Miryam Segal traces the emergence of a new accent to replace the Ashkenazic or European Hebrew accent in which almost all modern Hebrew poetry had been composed until the 1920s. Segal takes into account the broad historical, ideological, and political context of this shift, including the construction of a national language, culture, and literary canon; the crucial role of schools; the influence of Zionism; and the leading role played by women poets in introducing the new accent. This meticulous and sophisticated yet readable study provides surprising new insights into the emergence of modern Hebrew poetry and the revival of the Hebrew language in the Land of Israel.

Found in Translation

Found in Translation
Author: Gabriel Levin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

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The American born Robert Friend, who died in Jerusalem in 1998, was a distingushed poet and translator. Friend's skill as a poet, combined with his facility for languages, allowed him to excel at the exceedingly difficult task of translating poetry. " The language is simple. The images are often startingly beautiful. The miracle is that these poems feel like originally written written in English. Poetry Book Society Bulletin

The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature

The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature
Author: Marina Zilbergerts
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0253059429

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The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature argues that the institution of the yeshiva and its ideals of Jewish textual study played a seminal role in the resurgence of Hebrew literature in modern times. Departing from the conventional interpretation of the origins of Hebrew literature in secular culture, Marina Zilbergerts points to the practices and metaphysics of Talmud study as its essential animating forces. Focusing on the early works and personal histories of founding figures of Hebrew literature, from Moshe Leib Lilienblum to Chaim Nachman Bialik, The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature reveals the lasting engagement of modern Jewish letters with the hallowed tradition of rabbinic learning.

The Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature

The Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature
Author: Neta Stahl
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317420888

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Demonstrating the pervasive presence of God in modern Hebrew literature, this book explores the qualities that twentieth-century Hebrew writers attributed to the divine, and examines their functions against the simplistic dichotomy between religious and secular literature. The volume follows both chronological and thematic paths, offering a panoramic and multilayered analysis of the various strategies in which modern Hebrew writers, from the turn of the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century pursued in their attempt to represent the divine in the face of metaphysical, theological, and representational challenges. Modern Hebrew literature emerged during the nineteenth century as part of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) movement, which attempted to break from the traditional modes of Jewish intellectual and social life. The Hebrew literature that arose in this period embraced the rebellious nature of the Haskalah and is commonly characterized as secular in nature, defying Orthodoxy and rejecting God. Nevertheless, this volume shows that modern Hebrew literature relied on traditional narratological and poetic norms in its attempt to represent God. Despite its self-declared secularity, it engaged deeply with traditional problems such as the nature of God, divine presence, and theodicy. Examining these radical changes, this volume is a key text for scholars and students of modern Hebrew literature, Jewish studies and the intersection of religion and literature.

Modern Hebrew Poetry

Modern Hebrew Poetry
Author: Bernhard Frank
Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1980
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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