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Article: Kabbalistic feminism in Agnon's 'Betrothed.' (S.Y. Agnon)
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- Judaism
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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Introduction
THE STRUGGLE TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN a Jewish identifty as the core of Israeli culture, in the face of the chasm in Jewish life opened up by modernity between the self and reason at war with community and faith, is an underlying theme in much of Agnon's work. He simultaneously developed this theme and reflected it in his writing technique, by using modern literary approaches to character analysis and plot development, together with traditional Jewish symbols, allusions and subtexts. Nowhere is his concern about the importance of maintaining the Jewish core in Israeli life -- indeed, in the lives of Jews everywhere, but even, perhaps, especially, ...
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