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The Boom in Contemporary Israeli Fiction
Five essays explore facets of what Mintz calls the complexity of cultural reverberations in Israeli fiction of the past two decades.
1948 and After
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Beyond Sequence
A collection of essays, some of them published previously. Ch. 5 (pp. 63-73), "Jews or Israelis? Victims and Oppressors in David Grossman" (presented at the "Remembering for the Future" conference, Oxford, 1988), deals with the theme of the Holocaust in Grossman's novel "See Under: Love", in which the Polish Jewish writer Bruno Schulz (killed by the Nazis) became a mythical character. Ch. 6 (pp. 75-93), "Perspectives on the Holocaust", discusses the same theme in Israeli literature (e.g. Ka-Tzetnik, Yehoshua Sobol) compared with the presence of the Holocaust in the works of American and European writers, such as Saul Bellow, William Styron, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Primo Levi, and Elie Wiesel.
Facing the Holocaust
A selection of some of Israels finest writers.
1948 and After
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Israeli Writers Consider the "outsider"
A society can be judged by its attitude to those who are outside or disadvantaged by reason of class, sex, race, language, background, disability, and so on. This volume seeks to address the models of otherness that exist in Israeli literature.
Israeli Mythogynies
SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture. Index.
Art and War
Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel's most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum - Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zionist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf from a family of religious Mizrahi Jews living in Sderot - the two nevertheless shared a love of books, and were especially drawn to the strange visions and outrageous sensibilities of the science fiction that was available in Hebrew. Here, they engage in a dialogue that covers their approach to writing the fantastic, as they question how to write about Israel and Palestine, about Judaism, about the Holocaust, about childhoods and their end. Extending the conversation even into their fiction, the book contains two brand new short stories - "Tutim" by Tidhar, and "third attribute" by Adaf - in which each appears as a character in the other's tale; simultaneously political and fantastical, they burn with an angry, despairing intensity
Dreaming the Actual
This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.
A Perfect Peace
This tale of a conflicted family living on a kibbutz in Israel just before the Six-Day War is “Oz's strangest, riskiest, and richest novel.” —The Washington Post Book World On a kibbutz, the country’s founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams; the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father; the fragile young wife is out of touch with reality; and the gifted and charismatic “outsider” seethes with emotion. Through the interplay of these brilliantly realized characters, Oz evokes a drama that is chillingly, strikingly universal. “[Oz is] a peerless, imaginative chronicler of his country’s inner and outer transformations.” —Independent (UK)
