Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature Hardcover by Alan Mintz

Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature Hardcover – 1984 by Alan Mintz A study of the history of Jewish exiles and genocide, and the literary expressions that attempt to make sense of these catastrophes. In this book Alan Mintz devotes a chapter each to selected catastrophic events and the literary response to them: for example, the destruction of the First Temple in 587 B.B.E. and the resulting biblical literature; the massacre of the Rhineland Jewish community by the Crusades in 1096 and synagogue poetry; and the pogroms in Russia and modern Hebrew poetry. These earlier responses are then compared to the treatment of the Holocaust in the Hebrew literature of the State of Israel with special attention given to the works of Uri Zvi Greenberg and Aharon Appelfeld. Deeply felt and highly original, Hurban is a revealing study of an exceptionally rich literature in the context of an unavoidably tragic history. Condition - Dust jacket cover is edge-worn, rips along edges, stains, price label on back cover, sratch and scuff marks, - Book cover is edge-worn - Multiple pages have notes in margins and underlined sentences in pencil throughout the book - Page 233 has stains - Other pages appear to have no writing, highlighting, stains, rips, folded corners or missing pages Product details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Columbia University Press ( 1984) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 283 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0231056346 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0231056342 Item weight ‏ : ‎ 544 g