Heroic Poetry and Revolutionary Prophecy: Russian symbolists translate the Hebrew poets

From: Judaism | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

To the memory of my father, Mordkho Nachtajler, who grew up in pre-war Lublin, Poland, loved the Hebrew poets passionately, and knew them by heart

THE NATIONAL RE-AWAKENING PRODUCED BY THE MODERN Hebrew poetry of Bialik and Tchernikhovsky inspired the revolutionary Russian poetry of the early twentieth century. Translation was both occasion and engine, as Russian poets learned new poetic roles from their Jewish counterparts. The Hebrew anthology, a collection of Jewish poetry of the Hebrew renaissance-Evreiskaia antologiia: Sbornik molodoi evreiskoi poezii, published by the Moscow Jewish ...

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