Since 1948 : Israeli literature in the making / edited by Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berg, Nancy E., editor.

Sokoloff, Naomi B., editor.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture.

SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israeli literature--History and criticism.

Israeli literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Argues for stretching the boundaries of Israeli literature linguistically, geographically, and generically"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction Under Construction: A Kind of Festschrift for Israeli Literature

Building and Being Built

1977-Building a Canon

Moment Two: The Canon in the Mirror

Moment Three: Dueling Canons

To Be Determined

Notes

Part One: Through Time: Silences, Voices, Echoes

Not One, but Five Moments of Silence: On the Poetics and Politics of Asking for Silence

Introduction

Natan Zach's One Moment of Silence

One Moment

Haim Gouri and the Silence

The Silence and I

Yona Wallach's Explicit Sheket

Send Me Silence

Carmit Rosen: Old Kings and a New Queen?

Tehila Hakimi-The Time Has Come to Say Shut Up

Sounding the Mizrachi Voice: Ḥafla Thematics from the Ma'abarah to the Post‑Arabic Novel

Eli Amir's Iraq Trilogy and the Melancholia of No Return

A Bilingualism of Hebrew and Silence: Almog Behar's Tchachla veH. ezkel

Conclusion

Anthological Poetics: Reading Amichai and Halfi in Liberal Prayerbooks

Rereading the Siddur with Amichai and Halfi

Amichai in American Reform Liturgy

Part Two: Across Language and Territory: Literature and Identity

When Yiddish Was Young in Israel

A Canaanite Story: Language, National Identity, and the 1948 War

Canaanite Ideology, Canaanite Fiction

"Everything as it was a long time ago"- Language and Translation

"Now the yahud were here"

Re-Territorializing the Hebrew Language

Hebrew Unbound: Alternative Homelands in the New World

Part Three: Between the Lines: Rethinking Genres

From Here to Elsewhere and Back in Israeli-Hebrew Children's Literature

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5

"The pigs were my best friends": Animals and the Holocaust in Alona Frankel's Memoirs.

"They were always with me. The lice, my lice. . . ."

From Animal Fable to "How Could Such Things Happen?"

Wounded Crows and "Prisoners of Zion"

Stalagim: At the Limits of Israeli Literature

Part Four: Concerning Canons

Disruptive Nativity: The Poetry of Rina Shani and the Sixties in Israel

Committed and Nomadic: The Counterculture of the 1960s

Planted-Twice and Non-Planted: Leah Goldberg and Rina Shani

Asaf Schurr and the Critique of Postmodernism in Contemporary Hebrew Literature

"And the Winner Is . . .": The Economy of Literary Awards

Literary Prizes

Case Study: The Care and Feeding of a Literary Award

Appendix A Canaanite Story: "The Lord Be Praised"

On Our Bookshelf

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438480503

1438480504