With scrupulous attention to landmark poetic texts and to educational and                  critical discourse in early 20th-century Palestine, Miryam Segal traces the                  emergence of a new accent to replace the Ashkenazic or European Hebrew accent in                  which almost all modern Hebrew poetry had been composed until the 1920s. Segal takes                  into account the broad historical, ideological, and political context of this shift,                  including the construction of a national language, culture, and literary canon; the                  crucial role of schools; the influence of Zionism; and the leading role played by                  women poets in introducing the new accent. This meticulous and sophisticated yet                  readable study provides surprising new insights into the emergence of modern Hebrew                  poetry and the revival of the Hebrew language in the Land of Israel.

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