The psyche of an entire people underwent a paradigm shift during the Palestinian
Period (1920-1948). Jews took a spiritual quantum leap; they left the despair of the
'wastelands' of the Diaspora and journeyed towards the Promised Land. The quest
of these pioneers was to rebuild their ancestral homeland. When the pioneering
Halutzim encountered the ancestral soil of their Motherland, deep impulses were
revealed. Their folksongs - an important component of folklore and mythology -
reflected this inner dimension of their being and of their experiences in Eretz Israel
by means of archetypal transformations. Initially, an idealistic devotion to
reconstruction and intimate reverence for the Land was reflected. However, in the
1930s and 1940s, opposition to Jewish settlement transformed folksongs so they
became increasingly militant, reflecting a movement towards extroversion in the
Jewish psyche which was consolidated in 1948. / Music / Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Africa, 1997.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:umkn-dsp01.int.unisa.ac.za:10500/17649 |
| Date | 01 1900 |
| Creators | Rutstein, Esther |
| Contributors | Kolber, N., Lloyd, D. W. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (vi, 189 leaves) |
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