Here and Now: History, Nationalism, and Realism in Modern Hebrew Fiction

by Todd Hasak-Lowy

The emergence of Zionism in the late nineteenth-century and the evolution of Zionist society in Palestine were profoundly influenced by the Hebrew literature of the day. As Todd Hasak-Lowy cogently argues in this book, Hebrew authors wrote with the belief that accurately representing Jewish society--including its history--in their texts would both record the past and establish its future course.

Hasak-Lowy traces the tensions between the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081563157X
• ISBN13: 9780815631576
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"