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Rhetoric and Nation Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art Harold Bloom and Ken Frieden, Series Editors Other Books in Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Michael Weingrad Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz Ken Frieden, ed.; Ken Frieden, Ted Gorelick, and Michael Wex, trans. Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin Beth Kaplan From Our Springtime: Literary Memoirs and Portraits of Yiddish New York Reuben Iceland; Gerald Marcus, trans. Here and Now: History, Nationalism, and Realism in Modern Hebrew Fiction Todd Hasak-Lowy My Friendship with Martin Buber Maurice Friedman Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature Karen Grumberg Who Will Die Last: Stories of Life in Israel David Ehrlich; Ken Frieden, ed. Rhetoric and Nation THE FORMATION OF HEBREW NATIONAL CULTURE, 1880 –1990 SHAI P. GINSBURG Syracuse University Press Copyright © 2014 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2014 14 15 16 17 18 19 6 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3333-4 (cloth) 978-0-8156-5242-7 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ginsburg, Shai, 1967– author. Rhetoric and nation : the formation of Hebrew national culture, 1880–1990 / Shai P. Ginsburg. pages cm. — (Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-3333-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8156-5242-7 (ebook) 1. Hebrew literature—History and criticism. 2. Israeli literature—History and criticism. 3. Jewish literature—History and criticism. 4. Zionism and literature. 5. Nationalism and literature. 6. Shamir, Moshe, 1921–2004. Hu halakh ba-sadot. I. Title. PJ5008.G46 2014 892.4'09—dc23 2014011267 Manufactured in the United States of America In Memory of Ya’el Shai P. Ginsburg is an assistant professor of Hebrew and Israeli Cultural Studies at Duke University. He writes about cultural history in general and about cinema and on litera- ture in particular, both Israeli and Jewish. He is the trans- lator into Hebrew of Paul de Man’s book The Resistance to Theory. Ginsburg has reviewed fi lms for Tikkun, Zeek, and, most recently, Souciant. Contents Acknowledgments ✦ ix Introduction Nation and Discourse ✦ 1 1. Politics and Letters Ahad Ha-Am’s Rhetoric of the Nation ✦ 35 ˙ 2. Language and Pedagogy Moshe Smilansky’s “Hawaja Nazar” ✦ 75 ˙ 3. Literary Criticism as Nationalist Cartography Joseph Hayyim Brenner and “The Land of Israel Genre and Its Accoutrements” ✦ 108 4. The Rhetoric of Historical Anxiety David Ben-Gurion and Meir Yaari ✦ 153 5. History and Myth Moshe Shamir’s He Walked through the Fields ✦ 195 6. History and Mourning The Reception of Moshe Shamir’s He Walked through the Fields ✦ 229 7. National Aesthetics in Crisis Amos Oz’s Political Writings ✦ 266 8. The Tussle with the Zionist Dream Yaakov Shabtai’s Past Continuous ✦ 298 viii ✦ Contents 9. A Sentimental Journey Dan Miron’s Moral Landscape ✦ 336 Conclusion Rethinking the Hebrew Discourse of the Nation ✦ 372 References ✦ 385 Index ✦ 445
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