TY - JOUR
T1 - The Señora Quartet, by Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
T2 - A Restructuring of Zionism in the Sephardic Style
AU - Shimony, Batya
N1 - Funding Information:
* This study was supported by the Israeli Science Foundation ISF (310/14). 1. Y. Gormezano Goren, םידוהיה תכלמ (Queen of the Jews; Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad,
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© 2020 National Association of Professors of Hebrew. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - This article discusses Yitzhak Gormezano Goren's Senõra Quartet. The four novels, published between 2010-2019, present Dona Gracia Nasi and her dedicated efforts to help the Jews of Spain and Portugal, who were persecuted by the Catholic Church. The Quartet is re-viewed in light of the characteristics of the historical novel, with an em-phasis on the genre's role in the postmodern age as one that seeks to challenge the hegemony. The Quartet presents a counter-narrative to the classic Zionist narrative and positions alternative Sephardic elements in place of each of the classic Zionist cornerstones: The visionary of the state, the political vision, the perception of the Jewish ghetto, and negation of the Diaspora. The article also examines the manner in which carnivalesque poetics serves the "narrative coup" proposed by the Quartet.
AB - This article discusses Yitzhak Gormezano Goren's Senõra Quartet. The four novels, published between 2010-2019, present Dona Gracia Nasi and her dedicated efforts to help the Jews of Spain and Portugal, who were persecuted by the Catholic Church. The Quartet is re-viewed in light of the characteristics of the historical novel, with an em-phasis on the genre's role in the postmodern age as one that seeks to challenge the hegemony. The Quartet presents a counter-narrative to the classic Zionist narrative and positions alternative Sephardic elements in place of each of the classic Zionist cornerstones: The visionary of the state, the political vision, the perception of the Jewish ghetto, and negation of the Diaspora. The article also examines the manner in which carnivalesque poetics serves the "narrative coup" proposed by the Quartet.
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U2 - 10.1353/HBR.2020.0023
DO - 10.1353/HBR.2020.0023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098888536
SN - 0146-4094
VL - 61
SP - 333
EP - 357
JO - Hebrew Studies
JF - Hebrew Studies
IS - 1
ER -