Beyond Political Messianism : : The Poetry of Second-Generation Religious Zionist Settlers / / David C. Jacobson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Jacobson, David C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)

In recent decades, a group of second generation religious Zionist West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political messianic ideology of the first generation of settlers and have begun to explore poetry as a mode of individual self-expression. Based on interviews of eight key figures in this new trend and an analysis of their poetry, Beyond Political Messianism: The Poetry of Second Generation Religious Zionist Settlers tells the story of how they revolutionized the religious Zionist settler culture by moving poetry into the mainstream of that culture and how they introduced into the world of secular Israeli literature images and language drawn from their lives as religiously observant Jews. Among the themes central to these poets’ concerns are: the formation of a religious identity based on faith and ritual observance, the relationship of the contemporary Jew to the Bible and to traditional Jewish texts, appropriate ways to write about erotic experiences, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: COMING TO TERMS WITH A RELIGIOUS UPBRINGING -- Chapter Two: PRAYER AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD -- Chapter Three: THE BIBLE AND POETIC IMAGINATION -- Chapter Four: POETRY AND EROS -- Chapter Five: ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of Biblical Passages