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Dreaming the actual : contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers / selected, edited, and with introductions by Miriyam Glazer.

Van Pelt Library PJ5059.E1 D74 2000
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Glazer, Miriyam, 1945-
Series:
SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Israeli literature--Women authors--Translations into English.
Israeli literature.
Women authors.
Physical Description:
xvii, 396 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2000.
Contents:
Part I Short Stories
And She Is Joseph / Nurit Zarchi 17
Madame Bovary in Neve Tsedek / Nurit Zarchi 24
Invisible Mending / Ruth Almog 33
A Piece of Cake for Saul / Mira Magen 50
If Nella Could Do It / Shulamith Gilboa 58
The Fruit of Paradise / Leah Aini 68
Rest / Leah Aini 76
"It's Greek to You," She Said to Him / Savyon Liebrecht 81
Hunger / Nava Semel 99
Schlaffstunde / Yehudit Katzir 124
Two Hours on the Road / Shulamith Hareven 148
Gerbera Daisies at Half-Price / Mira Magen 163
Apples in Honey / Yehudit Hendel 182
Photograph / Ronit Matalon 193
Introduction to Selected Short Stories / Orly Castel-Bloom 200
A Thousand Shekels a Story / Orly Castel-Bloom 202
The Woman Who Went Looking for a Walkie-Talkie / Orly Castel-Bloom 206
The Woman Whose Hand Got Stuck in the Mailbox / Orly Castel-Bloom 209
A Special Section: Stories Translated from the Russian 212
Monologue of a Life Model / Dina Rubin 217
Rough Casting / Elena Makarova 226
Part II Poetry
Yona Volach: In Memoriam 243
Hebrew 245
I Have a Stage in My Head 248
Tefillin 249
When You Come Sleep with Me 251
The Life You Have 253
Bird 254
Dahlia Ravikovitch 256
Real Love Isn't What It Seems 258
An Unusual Autumn 260
Hovering at a Low Altitude 262
Blood Heifer 265
Hedva Harechavi 267
1 [times] 2 268
And It Is Still That Way 274
Already Night, Already Day 276
Raquel Chalfi 278
Reading the I Ching 279
Night Hair 282
Maya Bejerano 284
I Made a New Memory for You 285
States of War 287
from "The Hymns of Job" 289
Esther Ettinger 298
Excerpts from the Sabbath Dream Book 300
Micrographic Manuscript, Miniature (I) 302
Micrographic Manuscript, Miniature (II) 303
The Glass 304
Believe Me 306
Chava Pinchas-Cohen 308
Remembering Our Fathers 309
Her, Me, and Yochanan 312
My English Teacher 314
The Yearning of Karakashian 315
The Ineffable Name 317
Journey of a Doe 319
Hamutal Bar Yosef 326
Jaffa, July 1948 327
Reflections on a Dove 328
In the Library 331
An Angel on the Beach 333
Agi Mishol 334
Estate 335
The Sacred Cow of Hardship 337
Gravity, Death 339
Shopping 340
Devorah Amir 342
After Fall, 1956 343
I Have Longings for My Dead 344
What Seeps In 345
Thoughts about Sari's Jump 346
The "Nightingale" of Uncle Yair 348
Leah Aini
One Girl's Dance 349
Liquidation 350
In Their House 351
Shower 352
The Empress of Imagined Fertility 354
Nidaa Khoury 355
Death Is Your Salvation 356
People of Fire 358
People of Pomegranates 359
People of Figs 360
People of Olives 361
A Special Section: American Israeli Poets Writing in English 362
Shirley Kaufman 364
Deja Vu 365
Stones 367
Security 369
Job's Wife 371
The Mount of Olives 372
Linda Zisquit 373
from "Unopened Letters" 374
After Years of Feasting and No Sacrifice 376
A Word before the Last about Loss 377
Rachel Tzvia Back 378
Notes: From the Wait 380
Untitled 382
Abu Salim, Healer 384
Gaza, Undated 386
After Eden 388
Karen Alkalay-Gut 389
from "Between Bombardments: A Journal" 390
Kitzbuhl Church 393
Public Outcry 394
Transportation 396.
ISBN:
0791445577
0791445585
OCLC:
41960453

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