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The Last Chapter: Nathan Alterman and the Six-Day War

1999; Indiana University Press; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/is.1999.0007

1527-201X

Dan Laor, Moshe Tlamim,

Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

For obvious reasons, Nathan Alterman's admirers, including most literary scholars, tend to forget, overlook, or suppress the last chapter of his life. Despite extensive debate over his works during the last two decades, only a handful of studies have actually dealt with the period of his transition from an all-inspiring poet into an angry columnist whose writing, as well as public activity, were totally mobilized toward one overriding idea: the concept of Greater Israel. 1 Alterman's devotees regarded this step with a double qualm: they were dismayed at his poetry's unreserved permutation into journalistic polemics; and many were upset that Alterman, identified for over a generation with the pragmatic mainstream of the Labor Movement (Mapai), had now metamorphosed into the most vocal spokesman of radical ideology distinctly allied to the Revisionist Right. 2