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Barukh Kurzweil and Modern Hebrew Literature

James S. Diamond
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  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Publishers’ Preface
  • Preface
  • Key
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Barukh Kurzweil - A Cultural Biography
    • Moravia: 1907-1921
    • Frankfurt: 1921-1933
    • Brno: 1933-1939
    • Palestine and Israel: 1939-1972
    • Conclusion
  • III. Metaphysical Postulates Underlying Kurzweil’s Literary Criticism
    • Religious Faith as an Ontological Absolute
    • Demonic Nihilism as a Modern Possibility
    • Judaism as a Meta-Historical Religion in Tension with History
    • The Ontology of the Word: Language as the Transcendent Guarantor of Cultural Integrity
  • IV. Kurzweil’s Esthetics and Theory of Criticism
    • The Nature of Literary Creativity
    • Literary Criticism as Hermeneutics
  • V. Kurzweil on Modern Hebrew Literature: I. Theoretical Structure
    • Other Conceptions of Modern Hebrew Literature
    • The European Context of Modern Hebrew Literature
    • The Paradox Inherent in Modern Hebrew Literature
    • The Crisis of Language
    • Kurzweil’s Periodization
  • VI. Kurzweil on Modern Hebrew Literature: II. The structure of the practical criticism
    • The Haskalah
    • The Tragic Period
    • The New Vision of Jewish Sovereignty: Uri Zvi Greenberg
    • The Critique of Post-1948 Israeli Literature
    • Summary Evaluation
  • VII. Barukh Kurzweil: The Sensibility of Weimar Germany in Ramat Gan
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects
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Published: 1983
Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies
Copyright Holder: Brown University
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  • 978-1-951498-15-3 (ebook)
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