The Pain of Two Homelands: Immigration to Israel in Twenty-First Century Hebrew Prose Fiction
The article explores the conceptualization of immigration to Israel by two twenty-first century Hebrew novelists. Unlike the prose fiction of previous decades, which deals with immigration in terms of aliyah , whether aspiring to the ideal of the “melting pot” or criticizing it, that of Alona Kimhi,...
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crjohnshopkinsun:10.1353/hbr.2015.0003 2024-03-03T08:48:35+00:00 The Pain of Two Homelands: Immigration to Israel in Twenty-First Century Hebrew Prose Fiction Shiffman, Smadar 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2015.0003 en eng Project MUSE Hebrew Studies volume 56, issue 1, page 315-331 ISSN 2158-1681 General Materials Science journal-article 2015 crjohnshopkinsun https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2015.0003 2024-02-03T23:20:47Z The article explores the conceptualization of immigration to Israel by two twenty-first century Hebrew novelists. Unlike the prose fiction of previous decades, which deals with immigration in terms of aliyah , whether aspiring to the ideal of the “melting pot” or criticizing it, that of Alona Kimhi, a woman immigrant from the former USSR, and Sami Berdugo, a son of North African immigrants, is best considered in terms of minority literature. Both writers depict characters whose attitude toward integration in the mainstream Israeli culture is deeply and painfully ambivalent and skillfully use Hebrew—broken and idiosyncratic in Berdugo’s case, rich and fluent in Kimhi’s—to subvert the idea of an integral national collective whose common language it is supposed to be. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami sami Johns Hopkins University Press Hebrew Studies 56 1 315 331 |
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The article explores the conceptualization of immigration to Israel by two twenty-first century Hebrew novelists. Unlike the prose fiction of previous decades, which deals with immigration in terms of aliyah , whether aspiring to the ideal of the “melting pot” or criticizing it, that of Alona Kimhi, a woman immigrant from the former USSR, and Sami Berdugo, a son of North African immigrants, is best considered in terms of minority literature. Both writers depict characters whose attitude toward integration in the mainstream Israeli culture is deeply and painfully ambivalent and skillfully use Hebrew—broken and idiosyncratic in Berdugo’s case, rich and fluent in Kimhi’s—to subvert the idea of an integral national collective whose common language it is supposed to be. |
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