Between Snow and Desert Heat
Russian Influences on Hebrew Literature, 1870-1970
In both style and substance, Hebrew literature, from the second half of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, was unmistakably influenced by Russian prose and poetry. Lapidus presents nine case studies illustrating that influence on Y. H. Brenner, Isaiah Bershadsky, Mendele Mokher Seforim, Y. D. Berkowitz, Hayyim Lensky, Hayyim Hazaz, and Saul Tchernichowsky. For each case, she answers three questions: How, precisely, is the literary influence expressed? With what ideological or philosophical category may it be connected? Finally, what were its primary sources?
Rina Lapidus is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan.
Rina Lapidus
2003 / 225 pp / Monograph No. 27 / ISBN 0-87820-451-2, cloth: $34.95
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