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Jew, Zionist, Hebrew, or Israeli?

Transformations in the Identity of Jacob in the Novels of Benjamin Tammuz and Meir Shalev

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2004

Chaya Shacham
Affiliation:
Haifa, Israel
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Extract

The life story of Jacob, one of the longest and most complex of the Bible narratives, is a mine for the imagination of modern writers. Hebrew writers of poetry and prose have been drawn to Jacob's biblical tale and have made it the overt or latent intertext in their work.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2004 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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