Shachar Pinsker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shachar Pinsker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shachar |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinsker |
| SIGNATURE | PINSKER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9375-587X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Modern (Jewish) Woman in a Café
That Yiddish Has Spoken to Me
This essay examines the ways in which Yiddish-as a language, a set of literary traditions and practices, and a "postvernacular"-operates within the context of Israeli, Hebrew-dominated literature. After establishing the subject's poetic, historical, and political framework, I present two examples of how Yiddish exerted a (largely unacknowledged) influence on Israeli literature. The first concerns the striking similarities and intersections betwee…
The Urban Literary Café and the Geography of Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism in Europe
Literary Passports
Imagining the Beloved
This article traces the gender dimensions of Zionist nation building by examining literary texts written in the first three decades of the twentieth century. It offers a gender‐oriented analysis of a range of canonic and marginal literary texts and their historical contexts, and pays special attention to the ways in which literary production in general, and in Hebrew in particular, became an essential component in the effort to create an image of…
And Suddenly We Reached God
This article examines the categories of “secular” and “religious” and the way they are employed in Israeli literature by analyzing some of the recent debates about this issue. These debates attempted to respond to the new phenomenon of Shira emunit – “faith” or “religious” poetry – that has emerged in Israel in the last two decades. The debate, like some of the new developments it addressed, is indicative of a larger shift in Hebrew literature an…
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And Suddenly We Reached God
This article examines the categories of “secular” and “religious” and the way they are employed in Israeli literature by analyzing some of the recent debates about this issue. These debates attempted to respond to the new phenomenon of Shira emunit – “faith” or “religious” poetry – that has emerged in Israel in the last two decades. The debate, like some of the new developments it addressed, is indicative of a larger shift in Hebrew literature an…
Imagining the Beloved
This article traces the gender dimensions of Zionist nation building by examining literary texts written in the first three decades of the twentieth century. It offers a gender‐oriented analysis of a range of canonic and marginal literary texts and their historical contexts, and pays special attention to the ways in which literary production in general, and in Hebrew in particular, became an essential component in the effort to create an image of…
Literary Passports
The Urban Literary Café and the Geography of Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism in Europe
That Yiddish Has Spoken to Me
This essay examines the ways in which Yiddish-as a language, a set of literary traditions and practices, and a "postvernacular"-operates within the context of Israeli, Hebrew-dominated literature. After establishing the subject's poetic, historical, and political framework, I present two examples of how Yiddish exerted a (largely unacknowledged) influence on Israeli literature. The first concerns the striking similarities and intersections betwee…
A Modern (Jewish) Woman in a Café
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Hebrew (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Judaism (4 works) · Poetry (4 works) · History (3 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (3 works)