Yaacov Shavit is a professor in the department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the cultural history of modern Jews. In the 1970s, he founded and edited Katedra, a periodical dedicated to the history of settlement in the land of Israel. He is the author of prose works, poetry, and children’s books.
The perceived role of the national culture in the Zionist Eretz-Israeli context was to shape the new Jewish society created in the land of Israel and to give it overall content. It aimed to shape the…
Signs of a new spirit among certain circles of the Jewish intelligentsia can be detected even in the private sphere, within the four walls of their homes. It happens—admittedly, not very often, but…
The influence of Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) on German culture owed much to the salon society of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Hostess of a noted salon in Berlin, she was…