TY - JOUR
TI - From Altneuland to Neuland. Re-Interpretation of Jewish/Israeli Identity in Modern Hebrew Literature
AU - Boniecka-Stępień, Daria
TI - From Altneuland to Neuland. Re-Interpretation of Jewish/Israeli Identity in Modern Hebrew Literature
AB - 
	In 1902, Theodor Herzl, a prominent Jewish thinker and founder of political Zionism, published a utopian novel entitled Altneuland, in which he envisioned, based on ideas of egalitarianism, modern Jewish society in Palestine. In 2011, more than a hundred years after the utopia of Herzl was published, the contemporary Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo, in a way referring to the book of the Zionist ideologist, wrote a moving Israeli family saga entitled Neuland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, Israeli literature has developed, expressing the experiences and expectations of the young society. Modern Israeli literature developed from realism and a strong Zionist character, through revaluation of the Zionist myth up to the representatives of postmodernism focusing on the personal experiences of the protagonists, detached from the socio-political reality. Modern Israeli literature and in particular Eshkol Nevo’s novel, propose new approaches to literature in general and to Jewish and Israeli identity in particular.
VL - 2019
IS - Volume 17
PY - 2019
SN - 1733-5760
C1 - 2084-3925
SP - 9
EP - 14
DO - 10.4467/20843925SJ.19.002.12225
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/scripta-judaica-cracoviensia/artykul/from-altneuland-to-neuland-re-interpretation-of-jewish-israeli-identity-in-modern-hebrew-literature
KW - Israeli literature
KW - Theodor Herzl
KW - Eshkol Nevo
KW - Israel
KW - modern Israeli identity