2019 - 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0680-1001-01 | The Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The course offers a survey of the rise of Modern Hebrew literary prose from its beginning in the 19th Century to the Modernist prose of the 1960s, focusing on prominent writers and major poetic trends. Among the issues addressed will be: The literature of Jewish Enlightenment; the writing of S.Y. Abramovitch (Mendele Mocher Sforim); U.N. Gnessin and the beginning of Hebrew Modernism; Y.H. Brenner and the writing of the second aliya; lyrical realism in the writing of D. Baron; the writing of S.Y. Agnon; the 48 generation; late Israeli Modernism in the 1960s.
Attendance is mandatory, as is reading the prescribed texts according to the syllabus.