Haim Hazaz’s Hadrasha Reconsidered Iris Parush and Brakha Dalmatzky-Fischler The proposed reading of Haim Hazaz’s story Hadrasha ( The Sermon ) deals with its overt and covert interpretations – over the course of the sixty-year-long polemic surrounding this work – as a Zionist or proto-Canaanite manifesto that identifies Judaism with the Diaspora , and seeks to be divorced from both . It argues that Yudke , the protagonist , refuses to renounce his identity as a Jew and fails to visualize , let alone identify with , or love , the identity of the ‘ other nation ’ that will inherit Judaism in Eretz Israel . Yudke experiences difficulty contending with what he sees as the harsh , paradoxical face of the national revival movement , whose success means the loss of Judaism , and points out the heavy price to be paid for the realization of the Zionist vision . As portrayed , the predicaments of Zionism are vested not in organization or leadership , but are intrinsic . Like his protagonist , t...
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