“Things that are better concealed than revealed”: an historical-biographical study of S. Y. Agnon's attitude toward the Sabbatean Movement and the traditional jewish world
The literary works of many Israeli novelists and poets—among them Ḥaim Hazaz, Nathan Bistriski, Uri Ẓvi Greenberg, Amir Gilboa, Theodor Herzl, Abraham Samuel Stein, Zalman Shazar, Benyamin Shvili, and Yehoram Ben Meir—reference and develop the themes of Sabbatai Ẓvi and the Sabbatean movement; and s...
Subtitles: | Research Article |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2012]
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AJS review
Year: 2012, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 103-120 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
ʿAgnon, Shemuʾel Yosef 1888-1970
/ Sabbathianism
/ Judaism
/ Tradition
/ Employment
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RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism |
Further subjects: | B
Jewish Culture
B Tales B Jewish literature B Anthologies B Literary Genres B Rabbis B Polemics B Narrators B Jewish History B Hasidic Jews |
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Summary: | The literary works of many Israeli novelists and poets—among them Ḥaim Hazaz, Nathan Bistriski, Uri Ẓvi Greenberg, Amir Gilboa, Theodor Herzl, Abraham Samuel Stein, Zalman Shazar, Benyamin Shvili, and Yehoram Ben Meir—reference and develop the themes of Sabbatai Ẓvi and the Sabbatean movement; and scholars have explored the use of messianism in general and Sabbateanism in particular in Israeli literature. Yet no one has comprehensively examined the role that the Sabbatean movement plays in the oeuvre of S. Y. Agnon, the most important Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, despite numerous references to it in his work. |
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ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009412000049 |