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Classical Presences

Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

Classical Presences

Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

Classical Presences: Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

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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.


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Beschrijving Classical Presences: Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

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.


ISBN
9780198878964
Pagina's
432
Verschijnt
Serie
Classical Presences
Rubriek
Literaire non-fictie
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

Literaire non-fictie