Tangled Roots
Subtitle: The Emergence of Israeli Culture
Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781951498740
Subjects: Literature, history and criticism
Description: "In this new book Israel Bartal traces the history of modern Hebrew culture prior to the emergence of political Zionism. Bartal examines how traditional and modernist ideals and Western and non-European cultures merged in an unprecedented encounter between an ancient land (Israel) and a multigenerational people (the Jews). As this new Hebrew culture was taking shape, the memory of the recent European past played a highly influential role in shaping the image of the New Hebrew, that mythological hero who was meant to supplant the East European exilic Jew"--