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  • Bialik

    by David Aberbach ...
    Series Book 1 - Jewish Thinkers
    During his lifetime, Chaim Nachman Bialik was hailed and the poet larueate of Jewish nationalism and was regarded as one of the major Jewish cultural influences of his age. He was seen as the poet of hope and revival in an age which witnessed the Russian Pale of Settlement, pogroms, the Russian Revoltuion, the rise of Zionim and of Hebrew as a living language. David Aberbach explores the ... Read more

    $11.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies

    Politics, Literature, and Heresy

    by David Aberbach ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies: Politics, Literature, and Heresy offers a sweeping exploration of the evolving role of Bible interpretation from ancient to modern times, revealing its profound impact on religious, political, literary, and secular culture.Tracing the origins of Midrash in post-Temple Judaism and its transmission across Christian and Islamic traditions, this book ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Islam, Nationalism, and 1000 Years of European Poetry

    From The Song of Roland to The Highland Lute

    by David Aberbach ...
    Islam, Nationalism, and 1000 Years of European Poetry considers the long history of Islam and European poetry and its central importance in the development of European culture.David Aberbach offers a panoramic history of European poetry as it was affected by the centuries-long conflict between Islam and Christianity, from the early-medieval Old French chanson de geste, The Song of Roland, set ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Samuel Joseph Agnon, Psychoanalysis and Jewish History

    A Comparative Study

    by David Aberbach ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    Samuel Joseph Agnon, Psychoanalysis and Jewish History: A Comparative Study compares the writings of Samuel Joseph Agnon (1887–1970) with other writers, including Gustav Flaubert, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, and Carl Gustav Jung, as well as his great Hebrew predecessors, Mendele Mocher Sefraim and Chaim Nachman Bialik, who drew on the ancient Jewish biblical and rabbinic tradition in creating a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Bialik, the Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Nationalism

    by David Aberbach ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    This book explores the life and poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873–1934) in the context of European national literature between the French Revolution and World War I, showing how he helped create a modern Hebrew national culture, spurring the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language.The author begins with Bialik’s background in the Tsarist Empire, contextualizing Jewish powerlessness in Eastern ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Hebrew Bible, Nationalism and the Origins of Anti-Judaism

    A New Interpretation and Poetic Anthology

    by David Aberbach ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural nationalism common since the Middle Ages.As an edited work, the Bible includes texts mostly depicting long-gone historical eras extending over several centuries. Following on from Aberbach’s previous work National Poetry, Empires, and War, this book argues ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas

    From Adam to Michael K

    by David Aberbach ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life.Moral dilemmas are central in the literary genre of protest against the effects of industry, particularly in Romantic literature and ‘Condition of England’ ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Literature and Poverty

    From the Hebrew Bible to the Second World War

    by David Aberbach ...
    Literature and Poverty offers an engaging overview of changes in literary perceptions of poverty and the poor. Part I of the book, from the Hebrew Bible to the French Revolution, provides essential background information. It introduces the Scriptural ideal of the ‘holy poor’ and the process by which biblical love of the poor came to be contested and undermined in European legislation and public ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Nationalism, War and Jewish Education

    From the Roman Empire to Modern Times

    by David Aberbach ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    Nationalism, War and Jewish Education explores historical circumstances leading to the emergence of a Jewish religious school system lasting to modern times and the process by which this system was broken down and adapted in secular form as Jewish nationalism grew in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the Roman period, education became an essential part of rabbinic pacifist accommodation ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • National Poetry, Empires and War

    by David Aberbach ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Nationalism has given the world a genre of poetry bright with ideals of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of man, but also, at times, burning with humiliation and grievance, hatred and lust for revenge, driving human kind, as the Austrian poet Grillparzer put it, ‘From humanity via nationality to bestiality’. National Poetry, Empires and War considers national poetry, and its glorification of ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Bible and the 'Holy Poor'

    From the Tanakh to Les Mis�bles

    by David Aberbach ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    The Hebrew Bible is the main legislative and literary influence on European Poor Law and on literature on poverty and the poor. No extant literature from the ancient world placed more importance upon social welfare and the duty of the better-off toward the poor. It is the founding text for liberation movements.This book assesses why the Bible is so unambiguously positive in its view of the poor, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Jewish Cultural Nationalism

    Origins and Influences

    by David Aberbach ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    Jewish Cultural Nationalism explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts which signified, or themselves brought about, change: the Bible (Hebrew prayer book), and the modern Hebrew literature, particularly in Tsarist Russia. While the influence of the Hebrew Bible alone on nationalism in individual ... Read more

    $65.99 USD