Hebrew
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...
Hebrew literature
Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature, though there have been cases of literature written in Hebrew by non-Jews, mostly among the Arab cit ...
Haskalah
The ''Haskalah'' (; literally, "wisdom", "erudition" or "education"), often termed the Jewish Enlightenment, was an intellectual movement among the Jews of Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, with a certain influence on those in Wester ...
literature as well as the impact of nationalist ideologies on modern Hebrew literature.
Background
Iris Parush is a professor of Hebrew literature at
Ben Gurion University
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli national founder David Ben-Gurion, the university was founded in 1969 and currently has f ...
* ''Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society'' (Brandeis University Press, 2004)
* ''Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Selected articles
* Parush, I. (1997). Women readers as agents of social change among Eastern European Jews in the late nineteenth century. ''Gender & History'', ''9''(1), 60-82.
* Parush, I., & Brener, A. (1995). The Politics of Literacy: Women and Foreign Languages in Jewish Society of 19th-Century Eastern Europe. ''Modern Judaism'', 183-206.
* Parush, I., & Sternberg, S. (2004). Another Look at "The Life of 'Dead' Hebrew": Intentional Ignorance of Hebrew in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society. ''Book History'', ''7''(1), 171-214.