Hebrew Writing of the First World War

Name: Hebrew Writing of the First World War
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ISBN: 9780853037712

ISBN-10: 085303771X

ISBN-13: 9780853037712

Edition: 2008

Authors: Glenda Abramson

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Almost one and a quarter million Jewish soldiers took part in the First World War, spread through the armies on both sides of the conflict. Their numbers were more or less in proportion to the Jewish populations in the countries involved, and sometimes even greater. There is comparatively little writing about this experience in Hebrew. Those who did write novels, poetry, stories, memoirs and diaries in Hebrew were either serving soldiers on the Eastern Front and in Palestine, or civilians who were caught up in the war in one way or another. Their work reflected not only the tribulations of the trenches, but also the hardship suffered by civilians. Woven into their views of the war is a…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers
Publication date: 6/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 405
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



In the Trenches



Avigdor Hameiri: The Devil's Idyll: The War Poetry



Avigdor Hameiri: In the Lowest Hell



Uri Zevi Greenberg: Moonlight on the Wire



Shaul Tchernichowsky: The Poeta Magus



Civilian Responses



Ad Hena: S.Y. Agnon in Berlin



Yehuda Ya'ari and the Failed Experiment



Two Telushim of Vienna: Gershon Shofman and David Vogel



The War in Palestine



Aharon Reuveni's Devastation



Arieli Orloff and the Flawed Mistress



The Desert War: Ya'akov Hurgin and Yehuda Burla



No Way Out: Y.H. Brenner and the War


Glossary


Select Bibliography


Index