The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature

by Iris Parush

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature contends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and secularization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society were marked not by a reading revolution but rather by a writing revolution, that is, by a revolutionary change in this society's attitude toward writing. Combining socio-cultural history and literary studies and drawing on a large corpus of autobiographies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030818217
• ISBN13: 9783030818210
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"