TY - CHAP
T1 - Surfaces of encounter
T2 - modern Hebrew literature and its readers in the early twentieth century
AU - Nethanel, Lilach
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Modern Hebrew literature, at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, with its dramatic developments in poetry, short stories and essays, is mostly described as a central institution of the Jewish nation-building project. However, throughout its national period, this was a non-sovereign literature, produced and read by minor Jewish communities in their European host cultures. This chapter presents the far-reaching consequences of the transnational infrastructure of the modern Hebrew literary field. First, I argue with the assumption that modern Hebrew literature developed as a national, pre-statehood institution, and suggest to rethink the meaning of its territorial dispersion. Subsequently I readdress the fact that throughout its early constitutive national phases, the modern Hebrew readership never extended beyond a social minority. I argue for the identification of a new group of readers in the modern Hebrew readership: those with restricted Hebrew literacy, who could not understand modern Hebrew texts, but approved of the national implications of such writing.
AB - Modern Hebrew literature, at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, with its dramatic developments in poetry, short stories and essays, is mostly described as a central institution of the Jewish nation-building project. However, throughout its national period, this was a non-sovereign literature, produced and read by minor Jewish communities in their European host cultures. This chapter presents the far-reaching consequences of the transnational infrastructure of the modern Hebrew literary field. First, I argue with the assumption that modern Hebrew literature developed as a national, pre-statehood institution, and suggest to rethink the meaning of its territorial dispersion. Subsequently I readdress the fact that throughout its early constitutive national phases, the modern Hebrew readership never extended beyond a social minority. I argue for the identification of a new group of readers in the modern Hebrew readership: those with restricted Hebrew literacy, who could not understand modern Hebrew texts, but approved of the national implications of such writing.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004435285_011
DO - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004435285_011
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SN - 9789004434936
T3 - Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
SP - 207
EP - 225
BT - Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures; Transfer, Mediality and Situativity
A2 - Terpitz, O.
A2 - Windsperger, M.
PB - Brill
ER -