CHAPTER VIII
Reformers and Conservatives--The Two Extremes

CHAPTER IX
The National Progressive Movement--Perez Smolenskin

CHAPTER X
The Contributors to _Ha-Shahar_

CHAPTER XI
The Novels of Smolenskin

CHAPTER XII
Contemporaneous Literature

CONCLUSION

INDEX

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INTRODUCTION


It was long believed that Hebrew had no place among the modern languages
as a literary vehicle. The circumstance that the Jews of Western
countries had given up the use of their national language outside of the
synagogue was not calculated to discredit the belief. The Hebrew, it was
generally held, had once been alive, but now it belonged among the dead
languages, in the same sense as the Greek and the Latin. And when from