Beyond political Messianism
Subtitle: the poetry of second generation religious Zionist settlers
By: David C. Jacobson
Series: Israel, society, culture, and history
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781934843727
Subjects: History and criticism; God in literature; Israeli poetry; Prayer in literature
Description: In recent decades, a group of second-generation religious Zionist West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political messianic ideology of the first generation of settlers and have begun to explore poetry as a mode of individual self-expression. Based on interviews of eight key figures in this new trend and an analysis of their poetry, Beyond Political Messianism: The Poetry of Second-Generation Religious Zionist Settlers tells the story of how they revolutionized the religious Zionist settler culture by moving poetry into the mainstream of that culture and how they introduced into the world of secular Israeli literature images and language drawn from their lives as religiously observant Jews. Among the themes central to these poets' concerns are: the formation of a religious identity based on faith and ritual observance, the relationship of the contemporary Jew to the Bible and to traditional Jewish texts, appropriate ways to write about erotic experiences, and --

the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coming to terms with a religious upbringing; title: Prayer and the search for God; title: Bible and poetic imagination; title: Poetry and eros; title: Israelis and Palestinians.