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  • BIALIK, THE HEBREW BIBLE AND THE LITERATURE OF NATIONALISM
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    BIALIK, THE HEBREW BIBLE AND THE LITERATURE OF NATIONALISM
    DAVID ABERBACH
    This book explores the life and poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873–1934) in the context of European national literature between the French Revolution and World War I, showing how he helped create a modern Hebrew national culture, spurring the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. The author begins with Bialik’s background in the Tsarist Empire, contextualizing Jewish powerl...

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  • THE HEBREW BIBLE, NATIONALISM AND THE ORIGINS OF ANTI-JUDAISM
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    THE HEBREW BIBLE, NATIONALISM AND THE ORIGINS OF ANTI-JUDAISM
    DAVID ABERBACH
    In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural nationalism common since the Middle Ages. As an edited work, the Bible includes texts mostly depicting long-gone historical eras extending over several centuries. Following on from Aberbach’s previous work National Poetry, Empires, and Wa...

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  • THE ENVIRONMENT AND LITERATURE OF MORAL DILEMMAS
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    THE ENVIRONMENT AND LITERATURE OF MORAL DILEMMAS
    DAVID ABERBACH
    Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life. Moral dilemmas are central in the literary genre of protest against the effects of industry, particularly in Romantic literature and ‘Co...

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  • LITERATURE AND POVERTY
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    LITERATURE AND POVERTY
    DAVID ABERBACH
    Literature and Poverty offers an engaging overview of changes in literary perceptions of poverty and the poor. Part I of the book, from the Hebrew Bible to the French Revolution, provides essential background information. It introduces the Scriptural ideal of the ‘holy poor’ and the process by which biblical love of the poor came to be contested and undermined in European legis...

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  • NATIONALISM, WAR AND JEWISH EDUCATION
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    NATIONALISM, WAR AND JEWISH EDUCATION
    DAVID ABERBACH
    Nationalism, War and Jewish Education explores historical circumstances leading to the emergence of a Jewish religious school system lasting to modern times and the process by which this system was broken down and adapted in secular form as Jewish nationalism grew in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the Roman period, education became an essential part of rabbinic pacifist ...

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  • THE BIBLE AND THE 'HOLY POOR'
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    THE BIBLE AND THE 'HOLY POOR'
    DAVID ABERBACH
    The Hebrew Bible is the main legislative and literary influence on European Poor Law and on literature on poverty and the poor. No extant literature from the ancient world placed more importance upon social welfare and the duty of the better-off toward the poor. It is the founding text for liberation movements. This book assesses why the Bible is so unambiguously positive in it...

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  • NATIONAL POETRY, EMPIRES AND WAR
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    NATIONAL POETRY, EMPIRES AND WAR
    DAVID ABERBACH
    Nationalism has given the world a genre of poetry bright with ideals of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of man, but also, at times, burning with humiliation and grievance, hatred and lust for revenge, driving human kind, as the Austrian poet Grillparzer put it, ‘From humanity via nationality to bestiality’. National Poetry, Empires and War considers national poetry, and it...

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  • IMPERIALISM AND BIBLICAL PROPHECY
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    IMPERIALISM AND BIBLICAL PROPHECY
    DAVID ABERBACH
    Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy is a radically new interpretation of prophetic poetry. Using more than thirty new translations from the Hebrew Bible, it shows that this poetry is inseparable from imperialism, that each of the three major waves of biblical prophecy which have survived in the Old Testament occurred in response to simultaneous waves of imperialist conquest. ...

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  • THE EUROPEAN JEWS, PATRIOTISM AND THE LIBERAL STATE 1789-1939
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    THE EUROPEAN JEWS, PATRIOTISM AND THE LIBERAL STATE 1789-1939
    DAVID ABERBACH
    The fragility of the liberal democratic state after 1789 is illustrated in the history of the European Jews from the French Revolution to the Holocaust. Emancipation and hope of emancipation amongst the European Jewish population created a plethora of Jewish identities and forms of patriotism. This book takes the original approach of studying European Jewish patriotism as a who...

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  • JEWISH CULTURAL NATIONALISM
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    JEWISH CULTURAL NATIONALISM
    DAVID ABERBACH
    Jewish Cultural Nationalism explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts which signified, or themselves brought about, change: the Bible (Hebrew prayer book), and the modern Hebrew literature, particularly in Tsarist Russia. While the influence of the Hebrew Bible alone on nationalism...

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  • ANCIENT BIBLE INTERPRETATION AND ITS LEGACIES
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    ANCIENT BIBLE INTERPRETATION AND ITS LEGACIES
    DAVID ABERBACH
    Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies: Politics, Literature, and Heresy offers a sweeping exploration of the evolving role of Bible interpretation from ancient to modern times, revealing its profound impact on religious, political, literary, and secular culture. Tracing the origins of Midrash in post-Temple Judaism and its transmission across Christian and Islamic tradi...

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  • SAMUEL JOSEPH AGNON, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND JEWISH HISTORY
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    SAMUEL JOSEPH AGNON, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND JEWISH HISTORY
    DAVID ABERBACH
    Samuel Joseph Agnon, Psychoanalysis and Jewish History: A Comparative Study compares the writings of Samuel Joseph Agnon (1887–1970) with other writers, including Gustav Flaubert, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, and Carl Gustav Jung, as well as his great Hebrew predecessors, Mendele Mocher Sefraim and Chaim Nachman Bialik, who drew on the ancient Jewish biblical and rabbinic tradit...

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  • ISLAM, NATIONALISM, AND 1000 YEARS OF EUROPEAN POETRY
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    ISLAM, NATIONALISM, AND 1000 YEARS OF EUROPEAN POETRY
    DAVID ABERBACH
    Islam, Nationalism, and 1000 Years of European Poetry considers the long history of Islam and European poetry and its central importance in the development of European culture. David Aberbach offers a panoramic history of European poetry as it was affected by the centuries-long conflict between Islam and Christianity, from the early-medieval Old French chanson de geste, The Son...

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