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Auteur(s) : Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven (1942-....)
Titre(s) : Figuring Jerusalem [Texte imprimé] : politics and poetics in the sacred center / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
Publication : Chicago (Illinois) : University of Chicago press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (321 pages) : ill., fac-sim. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [295]-314. Index
Figuring Jerusalem explores how Hebrew writers have imagined Jerusalem, both from
the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls. For two thousand years, Hebrew
writers used their exile from the Holy Land as a license for invention. The question
at the heart of Figuring Jerusalem is this: how did these writers bring their imagination
"home" in the Zionist century? Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi finds that the same diasporic
conventions that Hebrew writers practiced in exile were maintained throughout the
first half of the twentieth century. And even after 1948, when the state of Israel
was founded but East Jerusalem and its holy sites remained under Arab control, Jerusalem
continued to figure in the Hebrew imagination as mediated space. It was only in the
aftermath of the Six Day War that the temptations and dilemmas of proximity to the
sacred would become acute in every area of Hebrew politics and culture. Figuring Jerusalem
ranges from classical texts, biblical and medieval, to the post-1967 writings of S.
Y. Agnon and Yehuda Amichai. Ultimately, DeKoven Ezrahi shows that the wisdom Jews
acquired through two thousand years of exile, as inscribed in their literary imagination,
must be rediscovered if the diverse inhabitants of Jerusalem are to coexist.
"For two thousand years, Hebrew writers imagined Jerusalem from a distance and used
exile as a license for invention. The question at the heart of Figuring Jerusalem
is this: how did these writers bring their imagination "home" in the Zionist century?
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, one of our leading scholars of modern Jewish literature, explores
the perils of this newly acquired proximity to a people's sacred and inherited resources.
Ezrahi finds that the same diasporic procedures-cultic, ethical, and aesthetic-that
Hebrew writers practiced in exile were maintained throughout the first half of the
twentieth century, even in proximity to the Temple Mount, while Jerusalem was under
the successive control of the Ottomans, the British, and then the Jordanians. After
1948, when the state of Israel was founded but East Jerusalem and its holy sites remained
under Arab control, Jerusalem continued to figure in the Hebrew imagination as mediated
space. But after 1967, all this changed. Over the next half century, the claim to
exclusive sovereignty reignited a messianic fervor that had been suppressed in Hebrew
culture for two millennia. The temptations and dilemmas of proximity to the sacred
would become acute in every area of Hebrew politics and culture. Figuring Jerusalem
ranges from classical texts, biblical and medieval, to the post-1967 writings of work
of S. Y. Agnon, and the uncrowned poet laureate of Jerusalem, Yehuda Amichai. Ezrahi
shows, ultimately, that the wisdom Jews acquired through two thousand years of wandering
and exile, as inscribed in their literary imagination, must be rediscovered if the
diverse inhabitants of this City are not to slaughter each other once again in the
name of an exclusive and vengeful God"
Sujet(s) : Moïse Maïmonide (1138-1204) -- Critique et interprétation
Agnon, Samuel Joseph (1888-1970) -- Critique et interprétation
Amichai, Yehuda (1924-2000) -- Critique et interprétation
Littérature hébraïque -- Thèmes, motifs
Jérusalem -- Dans la littérature
Jérusalem -- Religion -- Judaïsme
Indice(s) Dewey :
892.409 (23e éd.) = Littérature de langue hébraïque - Histoire et critique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-226-78732-9. - ISBN 0-226-78732-X. - ISBN 978-0-226-78746-6. - ISBN 0-226-78746-X.
- ISBN 978-0-226-78763-3 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46945021v
Notice n° :
FRBNF46945021
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Note on Hebrew Transliteration -- Prologue
"Why Jerusalem?" The Politics of Poetry -- 1 Introduction "This House, which is called
by My Name" -- Part I Literary Archaeologies -- 1 "Yes, you did laugh!": The Secret
of the Akeda -- 2 "You are as majestic as Jerusalem": The Song and the City -- 3 "Apples
of gold in ornaments of silver": Maimonides's Guide to the Poetic Imagination -- Part
II Agnon's Dilemma -- 4 "What may this be likened to?": Agnon and the Poetics of Space
-- 5 "Every day I have regretted not having stood in the breach": Agnon in Jerusalem
-- Part III Amichai in the Breach -- 6 "He comes out of a swimming pool or the sea
. . . and he laughs and blesses": Yehuda Amichai, Poet of the Sacred Quotidian --
7 "Visit my tears and the east wind, which is the true Western Wall": Amichai in Jerusalem
-- Coda -- Acknowledgments: Ancient Debts and Ongoing Gratitude -- Notes -- Bibliography
-- Index of Names -- Index of Biblical Citations
