Reflection of Zionism in the literature of the Jews of Iraq ... Read in the novel "The Dove Flyer" by Elie Amir

Abstract

The writer Elie Amir as a great innovator in the history of Hebrew literature modern one of the most prominent added to the Hebrew prose at all levels, wrote the novel, which is linked to love of the place positively, and the novel, which is linked to hatred of the place and appear negatively, and managed through these channels to add Much to modern Hebrew prose based on his diverse culture and his extensive knowledge of the European literature in the Renaissance and the periods that followed to the current stage. As well as the impact of Arabic literature as a knowledgeable of this language, these reasons have prepared him to write masterpieces that relate to place and love, whether this link negatively or positively love or hatred, as shown by the bilateral love and hatred through the place around Amir to a political place of his own, As well as the impact of the political trends that accompanied his life, which had a significant impact in literary productions.

Through the novel, the writer’s vision of the Jewish community appears as a part of Iraqi society with realism and longing for it, Amir elaborated on the truth, stories, and the feelings of the Jews before and during the migration, and they found him in Israel from the scourge, marginalization and hatred, As well as describing them as being low-class or second-class Jews. And any reference to the history of the Jews of Iraq after the establishment of the State of Israel literary or historical writing, or otherwise, Subject to the present and the cultural and political perceptions of the writer, Where writing is affected by the "external and internal scene", and cannot be separated from the prevailing cultural narrative. This is what we found in the writer Elie Amir, whose view of Zionism had changed, He who opposed it in the beginning but started to glorify it after the establishment of the state, is the same as Sami Michael before him.