Mysterium Tremendum The Varieties of Religious Experience in Hebrew Modernism
Shachar Pinsker
Stanford University Press eBooks December 13, 2010 DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9780804770644.003.0017 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Historical analysis Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that Brenner, Shofman, and Gnessin used the Yom Kippur theme to articulate modernist religiosity and a quest for religious experience, reflecting a tension between traditional observance and modern spiritual seeking. |
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the modernist articulations of religiosity and a quest for religious experience in modernist Hebrew writings, examinesing the religious theme of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) in the novels and stories of Yosef Chaim Brenner, Gershon Shofman, and Uri Nissan Gnessin.