Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature

A study of the history of Jewish exiles and genocide, and the literary expressions that attempt to make sense of these catastrophes.

In this book Alan Mintz devotes a chapter each to selected catastrophic events and the literary response to them: for example, the destruction of the First Temple in 587 B.B.E. and the resulting biblical literature; the massacre of the Rhineland Jewish community by the Crusades in 1096 and synagogue poetry; and the pogroms in Russia and modern Hebrew poetry. T...