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| 0680-3146-01 | Bialik and Tshernichowsky: Image and Reality | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course description
H.N. Bialik and Saul Tshernichowsky are the two founding fathers of modern Hebrew Poetry. Almost from their first literary steps they were conceived as a pair of contrasts. Tshernichowsky was tagged as the master of universal themes such as love, eroticism and nature, and as an ardent follower of ancient pagan worlds and European aestheticism. It was agreed, on the other hand, that Bialik is the most genuine representative of the Jewish national soul, being rooted in its language and traditions and expressing the most intimate experience of his generation. The seminar will examine the origins and the validity of these two established images and the needs they fulfilled in Hebrew culture.