Identity and Modern Israeli Literature

by Risa Domb

This book explores through literature the long and complex evolution of Jewish identity in Israel and the central role that language, ideology, memory, and culture have played in that journey. Language is possibly the most important component of any collective identity. Indeed, any nation can be better understood through its imaginative literature and never more so than in the case of Israeli literature, whose story runs in parallel with that of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853036608
• ISBN13: 9780853036609
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
• Length: 107 Pages