Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
תיאוריה וביקורת; במה ישראלית
Angaben zur Quelle:
42 (2014) 175-206
Keywords:
Aliyah, 3rd (1919-1923)
;
Zionism and literature
;
Jewish diaspora in literature
;
Hebrew poetry History and criticism 20th century
Abstract:
This paper focuses on the main Hebrew poets of the 1920s in Eretz Israel—Avraham Shlonsky, Uri Zvi Greenberg, and Isaac Lamdan —and their subversive attitude toward the Zionist ideology known as “the negation of exile.” By describing this ideology in Freudian terms of melancholy (negation of personal and collective loss), I suggest that their willingness and competence to cope with the trauma of immigration could be described as mourning. Furthermore, I argue that their modernist poetry does not consist solely of new poetical norms, in contrast with their predecessors, but also of their ambivalent Zionist discourse. This discourse was nostalgic regarding diasporic Jewish culture, their previous homelands, and even their Yiddish mother tongue, but at the same time it encouraged immigration to the new land of Israel. These poets challenged the dominance of melancholy in Hebrew culture and demanded that mourning—seen as a broader and less unequivocal perspective—should receive a central position in the culture of the 1920s.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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