1st Edition
Bialik, the Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Nationalism
Introduction: Bialik and National Poetry 1789-1914 1. The Jews under Tsarist Rule: Between Hope and Despair 2. Bialik and National Poetry in the Tsarist Empire 3. Bialik, Nationalism and the Hebrew Bible 4. From the Bible to Bialik: Poetry of Zion 5. Between the Hebraic and the Greek: Bialik and Tchernichowsky 6. Bialik, Aggadah and Jewish National Identity 7. Anti-Semitism and Hebrew Poetry: 1881-1948 8. Bialik, Wordsworth and the Romantic Agony 9. Bialik and Freud: Childhood Screen Memories 10. Childlessness and the Waste Land: Bialik and T.S. Eliot 11. The Artist as Nation-Builder: Bialik and Yeats Conclusion: Damaged Archangels and Charismatic National Poets
Biography
David Aberbach is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Studies at McGill University, Montreal, and Honorary Visiting Associate at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford. His books include Surviving Trauma: Loss, Literature, and Psychoanalysis (1989); Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media (1996); National Poetry, Empires and War (2016); and Nationalism, War and Jewish Education (2018).
