Creator Bio
Yaacov Shavit
b. 1944
Yaacov Shavit is a professor in the department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the cultural history of modern Jews. In the 1970s, he founded and edited Katedra, a periodical dedicated to the history of settlement in the land of Israel. He is the author of prose works, poetry, and children’s books.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Nimrod, the Hunting Dog
Dad and Nimrod had an agreed-upon whistle. When dad whistled that whistle, even from a distance, Nimrod would immediately leap up from his place and race toward him. Dad said that this was the whistle…
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The Kultura Work
The perceived role of the national culture in the Zionist Eretz-Israeli context was to shape the new Jewish society created in the land of Israel and to give it overall content. It aimed to shape the…