The Signs of Ethnicity in Contemporary Jewish Poetry: A Case Study by Nahman Bialik

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Arabic, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

Abstract

Ethnicity is about bringing people together in the land of historical and religious heritage and honoring the greatness of the homeland and the preference of patriotic interests over personal interests. The placement of ethnicity in the context of literature reveals the poet's patriotic notions and his attempt to preserve the historical and cultural and religious heritage. Jewish poetry is one of the literatures that is influenced by different ethnic styles and attitudes, and in line with the Zionist plan in the contemporary era, it has no unilateralism or pluralism, so that the pain of the Jewish people's veins toward It uses topics such as introversion, race, dead sand, and exaggerating the grandeur of the Hebrew myths. The Bialik synagogue has made numerous attempts to transform the ethnicity and wake the Jews of the unfortunate situation by comparing the Jews in the past. Bialik transformed Jewish poetry from Jewish Arab identity in the Middle Ages to Zionist Western identity in the new era. This study has concluded that the characteristics of ethnicism in Bialik poetry are based on introversion, racism, the idea of ​​liberation and patriotism, and the past by which the poet purifies the Jewish character of Palestinian Judaism and removes Arab and Islamic identity. It is worth noting that the concept of emancipation in Bialik poetry is to awaken the Jewish community and to reform the Jewish struggle. This research is based on a descriptive and analytical method that aims to study the concept of ethnicity and its conceptual structure in the poetry of Nahman Bialik.

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Quarterly of Arabic Language and Literature
Volume 16, Issue 3
August 2020
Pages 483-504

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