The Señora Quartet, by Yitzhak Gormezano Goren: A Restructuring of Zionism in the Sephardic Style
This article discusses Yitzhak Gormezano Goren's Señora 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 reviewed in light of the character...
| Subtitles: | Symposium on Bible as Book, Anthology, and Concept |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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Hebrew studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 61, Pages: 333-357 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Goren, Yitsḥaḳ Gormezano 1941-
/ Goren, Yitsḥaḳ Gormezano 1941-, Ḳṿarṭeṭ ha-senyorah
/ Novel
/ Jews
/ Spain
/ Portugal
/ Zionism
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism ZC Politics in general |
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| Summary: | This article discusses Yitzhak Gormezano Goren's Señora 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 reviewed in light of the characteristics of the historical novel, with an emphasis 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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| ISSN: | 2158-1681 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2020.0023 |