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Israel : a traveler's literary companion / edited by Michael Gluzman and Naomi Seidman ; with a foreword by Robert Alter.
Van Pelt Library PJ5059.E8 I77 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Traveler's literary companion
- A traveler's literary companion
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Israeli--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Israeli.
- Israel--Fiction.
- Israel.
- Short stories, israeli--Translations into english.
- Local Subjects:
- Short stories, israeli--Translations into english.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 236 pages : map ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Whereabouts Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Sixteen stories by known and unknown Israeli writers, the purpose of which is to give the reader a feel for the country. One story is on a confrontation between Arabs and Jews, another on a dispute between religious and secular Jews.
- Contents:
- Tel Aviv : Closing the sea / Yehudit Katzir
- By the time you're twenty-one you'll reach the moon / Gafi Amir
- The last crusades / Yossi Avni
- Jerusalem : Thank God for His daily blessings / Amos Oz
- In the neighborhood where biblical prophets... / Yosl Birstein
- Eilat : You never can tell / Gadi Taub
- Kibbutz : Galia's wedding / A.B. Yehoshua
- The store / David Ehrlich
- Rachely's father who was an actor / Yitzchak Laor
- Land : The other Barta'a / David Grossman
- Cocked and locked / Etgar Kerrett
- Someone else's story / Orly Castel-Bloom
- Pilgrimage : Idolatry / Ypram Kolerstein
- The writer A.M. Fuchs was already old... / Yosl Birstein.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1883513030
- 9781883513030
- OCLC:
- 35280541
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