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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glazer, Miriyam, 1945-

Series:

SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israeli literature--Women authors--Translations into English.

Women authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 396 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Short Stories""; "" ""And She Is Joseph""""; """"Madame Bovary in Neve Tsedek""""; """"Invisible Mending""""; """"A Piece of Cake for Saul""""; """"If Nella Could Do It""""; """"The Fruit of Paradise""""; ""Rest""; """"'It's Greek to You,' She Said to Him""""; """"Hunger""""; """"Schlaffstunde""""; """"Two Hours on the Road""""; """"Gerbera Daisies at Half-Price""""; """"Apples in Honey""""; """"Photograph""""

""Introduction to Selected Short Stories """"A Thousand Shekels a Story""; ""The Woman Who Went Looking for a Walkie-Talkie""; ""The Woman Whose Hand Got Stuck in the Mailbox""; ""A Special Section: Stories Translated from the Russian""; ""Monologue of a Life Model""; ""Rough Casting""; ""Part II: Poetry""; ""In Memoriam""; ""Hebrew""; ""I Have a Stage in My Head""; ""Tefillin""; ""When You Come Sleep with Me""; ""The Life You Have""; ""Bird""; ""Dahlia Ravikovitch""; ""Real Love Isn't What It Seems""; ""An Unusual Autumn""; ""Hovering at a Low Altitude""; ""Blood Heifer""

""Hedva Harechavi"" ""1 x 2""; ""And It Is Still That Way""; ""Already Night, Already Day""; ""Raquel Chalfi""; ""Reading the I Ching""; ""Night Hair""; ""Maya Bejerano""; ""I Made a New Memory for You""; ""States of War""; ""From The Hymns of Job""; ""Esther Ettinger""; ""Excerpts from the Sabbath Dream Book""; ""Micrographic Manuscript, Miniature (I)""; ""Micrographic Manuscript, Miniature (II)""; ""The Glass""; ""Believe Me""; ""Chava Pinchas-Cohen""; ""Remembering Our Fathers""; ""Her, Me, and Yochanan""; ""My English Teacher""; ""The Yearning of Karakashian""; ""The Ineffable Name""

""""Journey of a Doe""" """Hamutal Bar Yosef""; ""Jaffa, July 1948""; ""Reflections on a Dove""; ""In the Library""; ""An Angel on the Beach""; ""Agi Mishol""; ""Estate""; ""The Sacred Cow of Hardship""; ""Gravity, Death""; ""Shopping""; ""Devorah Amir""; ""After Fall, 1956""; ""I Have Longings for My Dead""; ""What Seeps In""; ""Thoughts about Sari's Jump""; ""The ""Nightingale"" of Uncle Yair""; ""One Girl's Dance: Leah Aini""; ""Liquidation""; ""In Their House""; ""Shower""; ""The Empress of Imagined Fertility""; ""Nidaa Khoury""; ""Death Is Your Salvation""; ""People of Fire""

""People of Pomegranates"" ""People of Figs""; ""People of Olives""; ""A Special Section: American Israeli Poets Writing in English""; ""Shirley Kaufman""; ""Deja Vu""; ""Stones""; ""Security""; ""Job's Wife""; ""The Mount of Olives""; ""Linda Zisquit""; ""From Unopened Letter""; ""After Years of Feasting and No Sacrifice""; ""A Word before the Last about Loss""; ""Rachel Tzvia Back""; ""Notes: From the Wait""; ""Untitled""; ""Abu Salim, Healer""; ""Gaza, Undated""; ""After Eden""; ""Karen Alkalay-Gut""; ""From Between Bombardments: A Journal""; ""Kitzbuhl Church""; ""Public Outcry""; ""Transportation""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780791492697

0791492699

OCLC:

811404035