An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature

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An Ideological Death Cultural ExprEssions of World War ii Interwar Preludes, resPonses, MeMory phyllis lassnEr, serIes edItor An Ideological Death suicide in israeli literature Rachel S. Harris Northwestern University Press  Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press www.nupress.northwestern.edu Copyright © 2014 by Northwestern University Press. Published 2014. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Harris, Rachel S. (Rachel Sylvia), 1977– author. An ideological death : suicide in Israeli literature / Rachel S. Harris. pages cm. — (Cultural expressions of World War II) ISBN 978-0-8101-2978-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8101-6765-0 (ebook) 1. Israeli literature—History and criticism. 2. Hebrew literature, Modern—History and criticism. 3. Suicide in literature. 4. Zionism in literature. I. Title. II. Series: Cultural expressions of World War II. PJ5021.H37 2014 892.4'093548—dc23 2014017284 ♾ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For my parents, Valerie and Jeffrey Harris “You are the bows from which your children, as living arrows, are sent forth.” —Gibran Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) ...