Between Approval and Negation of the Diaspora in ‘Abshalom’s Journey’ by Yaakov Steinberg
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‘Abshalom’s Journey’, Yaakov Steinberg, Nationalism, Colonialist Orientalism, Zionism, Jewish Immigration to Eretz IsraelAbstract
‘Abshalom’s Journey’ is a national modernist Hebrew epic written by Yaakov Steinberg after he immigrated to Eretz Israel from the Ukraine in 1914. It reveals an ambivalent national stance towards both Eretz Israel and the Ukraine. The main reason for Abshalom’s departure from the Ukraine is theological, and his main outlook on Eretz Israel is Orientalist. Tracing Steinberg’s shift from Romanticist poetics to Symbolism, the paper follows Steinberg’s transformation from nationalism to colonialist Orientalism, thus exposing the theological basis of Zionism, and Steinberg’s use of the colonialist perspective as a cover up of the violence involved in Jewish immigration to Eretz Israel.
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