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- Title
S.Y. Agnon's Jerusalem: Before and After 1948.
- Authors
Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven
- Abstract
This essay explores S. E Agnon's Jerusalem in a number of texts, spanning nearly his entire life--and beyond, into posthumous publications. I argue that the two constitutive events of the 1940s--the Shoah and the war of 1948 that led to the establishment of the State of Israel--hardly figure in, agnon's representation of Jerusalem, which remains largely an anachronistic site of pre-1948 pilgrimage and millennial visions. Rather than interpret this as part of a seamlessly religious worldview consistent with "holistic" poetic and political positions (especially post-1967), I suggest that there is a nonhistorical version of Jerusalem as the site of ultimate reconciliation and deliverance that is often "hidden in plain view" in some of the most audacious of Affnon's fictions. I conclude with a reading of the enigmatic short story, "Ma'gelei tsedek."
- Subjects
AGNON, Shmuel Yosef, 1888-1970; SHORT story (Literary form); TEMOL shilshom (Book); KISUI ha-dam (Short story); JERUSALEM in literature; HISTORY of Jerusalem; ISRAELI history
- Publication
Jewish Social Studies, 2012, Vol 18, Issue 3, p136
- ISSN
0021-6704
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.2979/jewisocistud.18.3.136