Since 1948: Israeli literature in the making

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 -- P...

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Subtitles:Israeli literature in the making
Since nineteen forty-eight
Contributors: Berg, Nancy E. 1961- (Editor) ; Sokoloff, Naomi B. 1953- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Albany State University of New York Press 2020
In:Year: 2020
Reviews:Canonicity Spaces (2025) (Yaakov, Reut Ben)
Series/Journal:SUNY Series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture Ser.
Further subjects:B Israeli Literature History and criticism
B Electronic books
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary: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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- Anthological Poetics: Reading Amichai and Halfi in Liberal Prayerbooks -- Rereading the Siddur with Amichai and Halfi -- Amichai in American Reform Liturgy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part Two: Across Language and Territory: Literature and Identity -- When Yiddish Was Young in Israel -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- Hebrew Unbound: Alternative Homelands in the New World -- Notes -- Part Three: Between the Lines: Rethinking Genres -- From Here to Elsewhere and Back in Israeli-Hebrew Children's Literature -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- Notes -- "The pigs were my best friends": Animals and the Holocaust in Alona Frankel's Memoirs.
"Argues for stretching the boundaries of Israeli literature linguistically, geographically, and generically"--
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Physical Description:1 online resource (308 pages)
ISBN:9781438480503