Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions invites readers to view classical antiquity through the lens of the Jewish question in the twentieth century. The volume explores the writings of poets, translators, and scholars in modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine under the British Mandate, and the State of Israel, who engaged with Greek and Roman literary precedents. These distinctively geopolitical entities are associated with different textual spaces, which despite their different linguistic trajectories, are inevitably entangled. The volume brings together distinct Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian voices that share a connection to Graeco-Roman antiquity through the thematization of the destruction of home, displacement, and different forms of wandering and homecoming. These themes are connected to acts of translation and transmission of classical culture and literature.