Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon: Nation Building and Minority Discourse

by Laurence J. Silberstein and Hannan Hever

A people's writings can play a dramatic role in nation building, as the development of modern Hebrew literature powerfully illustrates. Since the end of the nineteenth century, Hebrew writers in Europe and Palestine/Israel have produced texts and consolidated moments in the shaping of national identity.
Yet, this process has not always been a unified and continuous one. The processes of canon formation and the suppression of heterodox discourses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814736440
• ISBN13: 9780814736449
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"