Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 March 2025
- ISBN 9780198878964
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 240x161x30 mm
- Weight 890 g
- Language English 588
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Short description:
This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters examine themes including the destruction of home, displacement, and different forms of wandering and homecomings.
MoreLong description:
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions invites the reader to view classical antiquity through the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel who engaged with Greek and Roman literary precedents. Whereas these voices have up to now been mostly studied independently of one another as separate fields of research, this volume brings some of these distinct voices, who nevertheless share a connection to Greco-Roman antiquity, into conversation with one another. Taking its cue from the crisis of humanism following the Holocaust, the chapters take as their themes the destruction of home, displacement, and different forms of wandering and homecomings, drawing connections to acts of translation and transmission of the classics to form a picture of cultural and textual states of alterity. The volume shows that Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian responses to the classics are entangled and even complementary despite their different trajectories. The chapters included here focus particularly on critical moments in Jewish and Palestinian existence when the reception of classical humanism is closely linked to issues of survival. On offer here is a historically grounded investigation into the ways Jews, Israelis, and Palestinians have used classical antiquity and classical philology to validate their identity in a rapidly changing society.
MoreTable of Contents:
Classical Transformations
Part I. Classical Scholarship in Times of Crisis
After Lights Out: Studying Classics in a Second World War Internment Camp
Shlomo Dykman's Aeneid: A Journey from Holocaust to Revival
Resisting Reception: The Treachery of the Self
Part II. Philosophical Wanderings
The Genesis of Rachel Bespaloff 's De l'Iliade
The Odyssey, Otherwise
Cholent and the 'False Divinity' of Greece: Hannah Arendt's Hellenism
Part III. Translation and Survival
Yiddish Translations of Classical Texts: Plato in the Mamalushn and the Metropolis
Ay de mi Alhama: Impossible Chronologies of Love, Loss, and Learning in Freud and Moshe Ha-Elion
Translation in Exile: Ma---m--d al-Gh--l's Aeneid
Part IV. Classics and the Secularization of Modern Hebrew
The Classical Turn in Hebrew Literature in the Early Twentieth Century: The Role of the Literary Editor
The Reception of Classical Literature in Hebrew: A Very Brief Survey
Knowledge, Power, and Control in Modern Jewish Folktales of Alexander the Great
Part V. Mediterranean Classics: Receptions by Israeli and Palestinian Poets
From Enemy to Ruins: Roman Empire and Decadence in the Poetry of Dan Pagis and Haim Gouri
Homeric Memory in Israeli and Palestinian Poetry: Meir Wieseltier and Mahmoud Darwish
'Because of What Is Frozen': Back to the Classics in the Poetry of Israel Pincas and Walid Khazendar
