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As Zionism took root in Palestine, European Yiddish was employed within a dominant Hebrew context. A complex relationship between cultural politics and Jewish writing ensued that paved the way for modern Israeli culture. This volume reveals a previously unrecognized, alternative literature.

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This study sheds new, clear, and abundant light on various aspects of the Hebrew-Yiddish conflict in the Zionist Yishuv of Palestine and provides an instructive chapter in the historiography of Zionist culture. Original, insightful, and rigorous readings of the texts create a complex, innovative picture and reveal an alternative, complementary sphere of cultural creativity." - Chava Turniansky, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

"This book exhibits independent archival research of the most valuable kind, an ability to interpret the literary texts with fine attention to details of form and substance and without any sort of tendentiousness, a firm grasp of historical issues, and a subtle understanding of the complex relations between literature and ideology." - Robert Alter, author of Canon and Creativity

What Must Be Forgotten

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      Publisher Syracuse University Press
      Published 30 November 2004
      ISBN-13 9780815630500
      978-0815630500
      ISBN-10 0815630506

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      As Zionism took root in Palestine, European Yiddish was employed within a dominant Hebrew context. A complex relationship between cultural politics and Jewish writing ensued that paved the way for modern Israeli culture. This volume reveals a previously unrecognized, alternative literature.

      Trade Review
      This study sheds new, clear, and abundant light on various aspects of the Hebrew-Yiddish conflict in the Zionist Yishuv of Palestine and provides an instructive chapter in the historiography of Zionist culture. Original, insightful, and rigorous readings of the texts create a complex, innovative picture and reveal an alternative, complementary sphere of cultural creativity." - Chava Turniansky, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

      "This book exhibits independent archival research of the most valuable kind, an ability to interpret the literary texts with fine attention to details of form and substance and without any sort of tendentiousness, a firm grasp of historical issues, and a subtle understanding of the complex relations between literature and ideology." - Robert Alter, author of Canon and Creativity

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