Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe

by Shachar M. Pinsker

Literary Passports is the first book to explore modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. It not only serves as an introduction to this important body of literature, but also acts as a major revisionist statement, freeing this literature from a Zionist-nationalist narrative and viewing it through the wider lens of new comparative studies in modernism. The book's central claim is that modernist Hebrew...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804770646
• ISBN13: 9780804770644
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"