Author: PATTERSON, DAVID
Title: A Phoenix in Fetters: Studies in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Hebrew Fiction
Description: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988. 210 pp. Name on fly-leaf. else fine. Cloth with dustjacket, Dustj. slightly damaged at the back. On Abraham Mapu, Israel Weisbrem and others. David Patterson describes the extraordinary paradox affecting Hebrew literature in the 19th century.On the one hand it aspired to serve as a conduit for the Jews of Eastern Europe from the medieval to the modern world. On the other hand, it embraced a theory of literature that artificially restricted its development. ISBN: 9780847675647

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