Reading Hebrew literature : critical discussions of six modern texts / edited by Alan Mintz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mintz, Alan L.

Series:

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hebrew literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature, Modern.

Israeli literature--History and criticism.

Israeli literature.

Hebrew literature, Modern--20th century--Translations into English.

Israeli literature--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

x, 251, A38 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England : Brandeis University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Eighteen pre-eminent Hebrew literature scholars in the US and Israel offer commentary -- traditional, historicist, feminist, post-modern -- on one of six modern texts. The texts, printed here in both English and Hebrew, are either short stories or poems, and range from "old" classics by the best-known writers in Hebrew of the first decades of the 20th century, such as M.Y. Berdichevsky, S. Tchernichovsky, and S.Y. Agnon, to an interwar poem by Uri Zvi Greenberg to the contemporary modernist work of Amalia Cahana-Karmon and Dalia Ravikovitch. Alan Mintz's general introduction explains the genesis and development of modern Hebrew literature, its reception in US universities, and the value of the multiple readings offered in this book.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1584651954

1584652004

OCLC:

50155729