Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer

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Abstract

Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions invites readers to view classical antiquity through the lens of the Jewish question in the twentieth century. The volume explores the writings of poets, translators, and scholars in modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine under the British Mandate, and the State of Israel, who engaged with Greek and Roman literary precedents. These distinctively geopolitical entities are associated with different textual spaces, which despite their different linguistic trajectories, are inevitably entangled. The volume brings together distinct Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian voices that share a connection to Graeco-Roman antiquity through the thematization of the destruction of home, displacement, and different forms of wandering and homecoming. These themes are connected to acts of translation and transmission of classical culture and literature.

Original languageEnglish
PublisherOxford University Press
Number of pages432
ISBN (Electronic)9780191989148
ISBN (Print)9780198878964
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2025

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© the several contributors 2025.

Keywords

  • Classical receptions
  • Diaspora
  • European studies
  • Exile
  • Holocaust
  • Israeli literature
  • Jewish literature
  • Nakba
  • Palestinian literature
  • Translation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

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