Agnon and the Mediterranean: a new life by the sea
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Dec 22, 2011
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Vol. 60: A Tribute to Prof. Ángel Sáenz-Badillos Pérez (II), Articles, pages 23-48
Submitted: Jan 24, 2020
Published: Dec 22, 2011
Abstract
The prominence of the Mediterranean in S. Y. Agnon’s Aḥot (Sister, 1910), Šĕḇu‘at ‘ĕmunim (Betrothed, 1943) and Tĕmol šilšom (Only Yesterday, 1945) distinguishes these three works from most modern and contemporary Hebrew literature, which does not usually present the sea as an element of interest. Through an analysis of the characters and their world, we stress the role of the new locus amoenus that Jaffa and Tel Aviv represented at the start of the twentieth century for the new life that practical Zionism was seeking to create in the Land of Israel-Palestine.
Keywords:
Agnon, Hebrew literature, Mediterranean Sea, Zionism, Judaism
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Bejarano, A. M. (2011). Agnon and the Mediterranean: a new life by the sea. Miscelánea De Estudios Árabes Y Hebraicos. Sección Hebreo, 60, 23–48. https://doi.org/10.30827/meahhebreo.v60i0.42