Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Studies Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,1 (2005) 101-128
Keywords:
Bialik, Hayyim Nahman,
;
Jews
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Pogroms
Abstract:
Interprets Bialik's epic poem "In the City of Slaughter", written after he was sent by the Historical Commission to gather testimonies on the Kishinev pogrom in 1903, as reflecting less a secular historical account than a mythical one. Bialik emphasized the motif of the rape of Jewish women by non-Jews and the failure of Jewish men to defend them as reflecting Jewish impotence and shame, bases for a new national self-assertion, or Zionism.
DOI:
10.1628/0944570053450743
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