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Booking Passage - Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination

English · Hardback

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"This is a work of immense scholarship . . . [that] includes medieval Spanish poets like Judah Ha-Levi and the contemporary novelist Philip Roth. Booking Passage is about a return to sacred places, and the sacred in Israel. The dream of 'homecoming' is lastingly recoverable, truly, only in literature and as literature."—Alfred Kazin

About the author

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi is Senior Lecturer in comparative Jewish literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is the author of By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature (1980).

Summary

Until the late 19th century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers, their sacred center - Jerusalem, Zion - fatefully out of reach. This book examines the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the realignment of the people with their original center.

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