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Annou: Prince and Peasant
work by Mapu
Also known as: “Ahavat Ziyyon”
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discussed in biography
- In Abraham Mapu
…of the first Hebrew novel, Ahavat Ziyyon (1853; Annou: Prince and Peasant), an idyllic historical romance set in the days of the prophet Isaiah. Couched in florid biblical language, it artfully depicts pastoral life in ancient Israel. The book attained immediate popularity and was later translated into several languages.
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place in Hebrew literature
- In Hebrew literature: Romanticism
The first Hebrew novel, Ahavat Ziyyon (1853; “The Love of Zion”), by Abraham Mapu, was a Romantic idyll, in which Mapu, like all Haskala writers, employed phrases culled from the Bible and adapted to the thought the writer wished to express.
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