Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature

by Alan L. Mintz and Alan Mintz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815604246
• ISBN13: 9780815604242
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"