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Author Shvarts, Yigal, author.

Uniform Title Yadata et ha-arets sham ha-limon poreah. English
Title The Zionist paradox : Hebrew literature and Israeli identity / Yigal Schwartz ; translated by Michal Sapir.

Publication Info. Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2014]
2014

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Description 1 online resource (353 pages).
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Series The Schusterman series in Israel studies
Schusterman series in Israel studies.
Note Original work was published in 2007 with English title "Do you know the land where the lemon blooms : human engineering and landscape conceptualization in Hebrew literature"--Publisher's email.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index.
Contents 1. Avraham Mapu, "The love of Zion" (1853): the beautiful daughter of Zion, the (Faux) shepherd boy and the cutting up of the monster -- 2. Theodor Herzl, "Altneuland" (1902): shall these dry bones live -- 3. Yosef Luidor, "Yoash" (1912): the taste of freedom and space -- 4. Moshe Shamir, "He walked in the fields" (1948): it turned out it was all fake -- 5. Amos Oz, "Nomads and viper" (1963): a short, patched European jacket over a white desert robe.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Zionism in literature.
Hebrew fiction -- History and criticism.
Israeli fiction -- History and criticism.
Jews -- Israel -- Identity.
National characteristics, Israeli, in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Sapir, Michal, translator.
Other Form: Print version: Shvarts, Yigal. Zionist paradox : Hebrew literature and Israeli identity. Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2014] xiii, 338 pages ; 25 cm The Schusterman series in Israel studies 9781584658948 (DLC)10962081
ISBN 9781584658948 (cloth)
9781611686012 (pbk.)
9781611686029 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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