0761833072
In search of genre; Hebrew enlightenment and modernity.
Pelli, Moshe.
Univ. Press of America
2005
360 pages
$45.00
Paperback
PN6067
Pelli (Judaic studies, U. of central Florida) examines the beginning of modernity in Hebrew and Jewish letters at the end of the eighteenth century in Germany. In an atmosphere which had begun to encourage revival in culture, young intellectuals sought to bring new life to the Hebrew language in diaspora by creating a corpus of literature that paralleled that in new works in German and other languages. Pelli covers the growth of Haskalah in an epistolary story by Euchel, the fable in Hame'asef, satire in Berlin's Ktac Yosher, in translations of the Hebrew Bible, in a poignant travelogue by Romanelli, in autobiography, and in a satiric novel. The bibliography is especially helpful.
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