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    • Author/Creator:Ḥaḳaḳ, Lev.
    • Uniform Title:[Nitsane ha-yetsirah ha-ʻIvrit ha-ḥadashah be-Vavel. English]
    • Title:The emergence of modern Hebrew literature in Babylon from 1735-1950 / Lev Hakak.
    • ISBN:9781557535146
      1557535140
    • Published/Created:West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2009.
    • Physical Description:xi, 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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    • Format:Book
    • Series:Shofar supplements in Jewish studies
      Shofar supplements in Jewish studies.
    • Contents:Pathfinders and explorers in the eighteenth and nineteenth century Hebrew poetry in Babylon -- Four poets of Babylonian origin -- The twentieth century poets in Babylon -- The folktales of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim -- An epistle as a literary work: Rabbi Ya'acov Hayyim's letter to Farha Sason -- Shaul Abdullah Yosef: a scholar of medieval Hebrew poetry -- Rabbi Saliman Mani: Hebron, Gaza, and the demons -- Ha-Dover: the first Hebrew journal in Babylon -- Yeshurun: "the newspaper is the heart of the people" -- Shemesh: an anthology of poems and compositions from the students of Shamash school -- Derekh he-Haluts: the journal of the movement counselors.
    • Subjects:Hebrew literature--Iraq--History and criticism.
      Hebrew language--Iraq--History.