Abstract
During the 1920s, Uri Zvi Grinberg’s attitude to the Jews of Eastern Europe and their Jewish lifestyle underwent fascinating changes. This article will examine how Grinberg’s aliyah to Eretz Israel and his becoming a pioneer influenced how he viewed the Jews of Eastern Europe and their distinctive symbols of Jewish identity. Did the fact that the Third Aliyah pioneers severed all their ties with Jewish tradition and its diaspora manifestations, cause him to reject the experience of shtetl life or did it perhaps give him a new perspective on it? The corpus through which these questions will be explored includes Grinberg’s poetry and journalistic writings from the time he immigrated to Eretz Israel in December 1923 until 1928.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 181-204 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of Modern Jewish Studies |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2 Apr 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
The outline for this study was first presented at the 17th Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, on 7 August 2017. This work is a part of a study (No. 299/16) supported by the Israel Science Foundation.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Israel Science Foundation |
Keywords
- The Jews of Eastern Europe
- The Third Aliya
- The pioneer ethos
- Uri Zvi Grinberg