Mapu, Abraham

Mapu, Abraham

▪ Lithuanian-Jewish author
born Jan. 10, 1808, near Kovno, Lithuania, Russian Empire
died Oct. 9, 1867, Königsberg, East Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]

      author 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.

      A teacher of religion and German, Mapu was an influential advocate of the Haskalah, or Enlightenment, movement. Influenced stylistically by Victor Hugo and Eugène Sue, Mapu's novels romanticized a sovereign Israel and indirectly paved the way for the revival of Jewish nationalism and the Zionist movement. Other novels include ʿAyiṭ tzavuaʿ (1858–69; “The Hypocrite”), an attack on social and religious injustice in the ghetto; Ashmat Shomron (1865; “Guilt of Samaria”), a biblical epic about the hostility between Jerusalem and Samaria in the time of King Ahaz; and oze ḥezyonot, (1869; “The Visionary”), an exposé of Ḥasidism, which was confiscated by religious authorities.

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