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	Yosef Oren - An Unconventional Attitude Toward Israeli Literature
		The history of Hebrew literature recounts the continuous effort of the generations to maintain the borders of this internal expanse in the face of the penetration of values (2.3) and visions (2.4) foreign to those values and visions to which the national literature decided to devote itself long ago.
		Their writing is part of the literature of the nation to which each of them belongs, despite the fact that their works are written in the Hebrew language and that some of them have an amazing mastery of the language which, at times, surpasses that of Jewish authors in Israel and abroad.
		This was literature involved in the life of the period and it expressed the primary influences on Israeli and Jewish lives throughout the State’s existence: sovereignty (4.1), immigration (4.5), the Holocaust (4.6) and wars (4.7).
	www.acpr.org.il /ENGLISH-NATIV/03-ISSUE/oren-3.htm (13206 words)

	Israeli literature in English
		Leading Israeli novelist Sami Michael shares his gift for navigating the cultural conflicts in modern Israel with A Trumpet in the Wadi, a novel that transcends its Middle Eastern setting with an honest and heartbreaking story of impossible love and the strength of family.
		Israeli society will snicker at our expense." Though predictable general pronouncements blunt the novel's effect, Castel-Bloom's insights into human weaknesses and self-interest are wickedly precise.
		Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.
	www.israelemb.org /la/culture/books/Nov19.htm (1341 words)

	Israeli literature in English
		To be sure, this is a small segment of Israeli society: the Israeli intelligentsia, represented by Professor Yochanan Rivlin and his wife, Hagit, a district judge, who live in Haifa, as well as educated Arabs in Galilee villages whose existence is circumscribed by the rules of occupation.
		Underlying the affectionate domestic banter of Yochanan and Hagit is Yochanan's obsessive quest to discover what went wrong in the short marriage of their son and his wife, a quest complicated by a horrifying secret the sundered couple have vowed not to divulge.
		The threat of violence, while acknowledged by everyone, is not in the forefront of the plot, which is more concerned with the complacency of intelligent Israeli Jews in the face of the plight of their Arab neighbors.
	www.israelemb.org /la/culture/books/BooksOct22.htm (1180 words)

	FORWARD : Summer Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Israeli life and culture have changed dramatically since the outbreak of the intifada in September 2000.
		Mintz writes that literature provides a way to "probe beneath political emergencies" and to "get at the existential core of Israeli experience." It allows outsiders to listen in on the deepest conversations that Israelis are having among themselves and about themselves, and Mintz laments that so few Americans care to eavesdrop.
		Naomi Sokoloff teaches courses on Hebrew literature and Israeli culture at the University of Washington, where she is a professor in the department of Near Eastern literatures and civilization.
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.06.21/arts4.html (1618 words)

	Israeli literature (from Hebrew literature) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
		Literature in Hebrew has been produced continuously since at least the 12th century BC.
		As in the history of the literature of most peoples, poetry was the first literary expression of the Germans.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-61553 (810 words)

	Jewish Review: Israeli literature expands adults' understanding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		ISRAELI LITERATURE—Israeli Literature as a Window to Israeli Society, taught by Sylvia Frankel, is this fall's most popular graduate class being offered by the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School in Portland.
		Beginning during Jewish Book Month, the class reflects an interest in literature and using literature to understand society, according to Melton Director Bonni Goldberg, who added that the class was so popular, people had to be turned away.
		The course uses Israeli literature in English translation to study contemporary Israeli society including its cultural, religious, social, political and existential dimensions.
	www.jewishreview.org /Archives/Article.php?Article=2005-12-01-1859 (279 words)

	Israeli Literature Books and Articles - Research Israeli Literature at Questia Online Library
		...Brief History of Identity in Israeli Literature YIGAL SCHWARTZ Hey, little...proper place in the pantheon of Israeli literature, is the poet Pinhas Sadeh...central tendency...
		The Arab in the Mirror: The Image of the Arab in Israeli Fiction, in Prooftexts
		...uncensured freedom of speech, Israeli literature is able to attenuate the discomfort...does not imply that recent Israeli literature is free from stereotypes...
	www.questia.com /library/literature/israeli-literature.jsp (446 words)

	MorahgCV03.html
		“Issues of Identity in Israel’s New Literature of the Holocaust.”; Invited paper for symposium titled: “Israeli and/or Jewish: The Reception of Israeli Literature and Art in Israel, Germany and the Netherlands” organized by the Menasseh ben Israel Institute and the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
		Issues of Identity in Israeli Literature.” Summer Adult Institute, UW Center for Jewish Studies, July 13, 2000.
		Swarsensky Scholar-in-Residence Lectures: “Israeli Writers and the Heritage of the Holocaust”; and “Israeli Writers on Zion and Diaspora.” Temple Beth El, Madison WI, November 8 and 10, 2002.
	polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /hebrew/MorahgCV03.html (1470 words)

	Israeli Literature Bibliography
		An Israeli citizen returns to the Eastern European town of his birth after the Holocaust to find the vibrant, idealized Jewish community of his memory disappeared, forcing him to choose between the steady, repressive old ways of his past and an uncertain but liberated future.
		Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case (Mystery Gur.B) The third in a series featuring Israeli police detective Michael Ohayon, this time using his maverick style to slowly crack the code of silence on a kibbutz (agricultural commune) when one of its members is poisoned.
		A young housewife and her ten year old neighbor in a small Israeli town in the 1950s meet a soldier on their daily walks, prompting her to break free of her isolation with tragic consequences for her entire community.
	www.evanston.lib.il.us /library/bibliographies/israeli-lit.html (1448 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Beginning with Sholom Aleichem and ending with a tentative evaluation of modern Israeli literature (appropriately called "A Chapter in the Making"), she does nothing less than take the reader on a fascinating journey through the intellectual, cultural and political history of Jewry since the late 19th century.
		Contrasting Israeli writers to their Yiddish counterparts in interwar Poland, the author expresses concern that "the canonical impulse itself" is becoming threatened in Israel: "Traditional Jews always begin their study with the earliest sources, which are closest to the word of God.
		For her, therefore, it is a matter of political principle that Israeli literature will perforce reflect and continue the impulses of earlier Jewish literature.
	www.forward.com /issues/2000/00.12.15/arts3.html (1190 words)

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		Israeli authors are significantly more successful in Europe than in the United States, and literary experts say this phenomenon is a result of the American public's insular mentality and cultural narrow-mindedness.
		Independent literary agent Deborah Harris of Jerusalem says Israeli literature is much better suited for the European audience.
		It is not only Israeli writers who sell poorly in the U.S, as renowned European writers also have a difficult time infiltrating the American market.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3057720,00.html (550 words)

	An Introduction to Modern Israeli Literature
		Russia and Poland of 1881 to1920 were the scene of a new stage in Modern Hebrew literature called "The Literature of Renewal," which grew out of the Haskalah literature of Western Europe that flowered during the preceding century.
		The Hebrew literature created during the period of 1881 to 1920 is, therefore, called "The Literature of the Renaissance" (or "...
		Language, Art, and Tradition: The National Poet's concern for the aesthetic perfection of his verse was unprecedented in the Haskalah literature and unparalleled in the "Literature of the National Renewal." In the realm of aesthetics as in that of ideas, Bialik looked into himself and to the Jewish past.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1487&subject=51 (3531 words)

	On Campus 03/23/00--Gale lecture in Jewish studies set for April 6
		New components in Israeli literature, including the growing role of women writers, will be the topic of a lecture April 6 at UT Austin.
		Yudkin, a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at University College, is the author of numerous books on Israeli literature, including a book on Hebrew literature in the wake of the Holocaust.
		"This is expressed -- not as is the case with the prevalent thrust of Israeli fiction -- by the entrenched, male, Labour-voting, dissident Zionist, Westernized, publicly oriented, Israeli view," Yudkin said.
	www.utexas.edu /opa/pubs/oncampus/00oc_issues/oc000323/oc_gale.html (398 words)

	Amazon.com: Keys to the Garden : New Israeli Writing: Books: Ammiel Alcalay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mizrahis (Israelis whose families immigrated from the Levant, Turkey, Iran, India and the Arab World), though a numerical majority, have continually been treated as a minority in Israeli society and their artistic and literary achievements have been overshadowed and marginalized by those in the mainstream.
		Yet, within Israeli society itself, a sense of discord between mainstream Jews and mizrahis is also in evidence and this collection brings some of that to light.
		This anthology is not meant to be a comprehensive collection of mizrahi literature but is meant to introduce a class of writing that has been absent for too long.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0872863085?v=glance (1149 words)

	SUNY Press :: Exile from Exile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The standard histories of Israeli literature limit the canon, virtually ignoring those who came to Israel from Jewish communities in the Middle East.
		In addition, her analysis of the early novels of Hebrew writers set against the experience of "transit camps" (ma'abarot) argues for a re-evaluation of the significance of this neglected literary subgenre.
		Nancy E. Berg is Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis.
	www.sunypress.edu /details.asp?id=53460 (410 words)

	Israel Cultures, Arts, Volunteering, Bar Mitzvah in @The Source Israel
		In this anthology, Glazer, an American professor of literature with strong ties to Israel, guides the reader and introduces the female voices of contemporary Israeli literature.
		The publication of Dreaming the Actual: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Israeli Women Writers selected, edited and introduced by Miriyam Glazer is a milestone in the developing field of the translation of Israeli literature -- in this instance the short stories and poetry of Isaeli women, writen in Hebrew, Russian and English.
		Bereavement, poverty, displacement, haunt the psyches of the inhabitants of a country built on the bitter message of the Holocaust and the struggle to survive.
	www.thesourceisrael.com /bookshelf/glazer.shtml (713 words)

	95-106i (Arab-Israeli Literature)
		Brown professors Kamal Abdel-Malek and David Jacobson have created a course that uses literature to help students of all ethnic and religious backgrounds understand the decades-old Arab-Israeli conflict without being mired in political ideology.
		"We believe that basic cultural assumptions about the other are embedded in the literature of each group and therefore this literature is a valuable source for understanding the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict," said Jacobson.
		The course, which may be the first of its kind, according to the professors, was Abdel-Malek's idea, but he had been unable to broach the idea elsewhere.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/1995-96/95-106i.html (765 words)

	Curiosities of Literature
		The short life of Henry was passed in a school of prowess, and amidst an academy of literature.
		Of Elizabeth, the Queen of Bohemia, tried as she was by such vicissitudes of fortune, it is much to be regretted that her interesting story remains untold; her buoyant spirits rose always above the perpetual changes, of a princely to a private state—a queen to an exile!
		A large volume might be composed on literary impostors; their modes of deception, however, were frequently repetitions; particularly those at the restoration of letters, when there prevailed a mania for burying spurious antiquities, that they might afterwards be brought to light to confound their contemporaries.
	www.spamula.net /col (1875 words)

	Hebrew at Carleton
		She specializes in contemporary Israeli literature and society, drawing on a combined background in Comparative Literature (Israeli and Spanish), Hebrew language, and International Relations.
		Classroom activities involve popular Israeli music, radio programs and advertisements, and films, and will introduce students to different aspects of contemporary Israeli culture and life in the Middle East.
		In the Israeli literature, we will examine modes of representing Palestinian peoples and their interactions with Israeli Jewish citizens, and ways in which the latter grapple with forging personal and national identities in the region; the Arab Middle East.
	www.acad.carleton.edu /curricular/hebr (1311 words)

	The Mizrahi in Israeli Literature and Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The film depicts the personal side of the story, the life of the man behind the headlines: his immigration from Morocco and his impoverished upbringing in Beer Sheva, his role in the international fiasco and his subsequent capture, continuing through to his recent release from prison.
		The highest-grossing Israeli film ever, Turn Left at the End of the World takes us back to 1969, where two immigrant families, one Moroccan, the other Indian, become unlikely neighbors in a tiny village in the middle of the Negev desert.
		Convenient ethnic caricatures in Israeli and foreign films projected onto the big screen many of the same colonial pretensions that have factored into the real-life political and cultural displacement of Arab-Jews in Israel.
	menic.utexas.edu /menic/cmes/Events/mizrahicinema05.html (1067 words)

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		Rivka Maoz Autumn Semester 2001/2002 Myth and Identity in Modern Hebrew Literature Israeli reality as reflected and shaped by Hebrew writers; “sabras” and immigrants on local Israeli and universal existential issues such as the Arab-Israeli conflict; Holocaust and Return; Diaspora and Zionism; Tradition and Crisis; Individual and Society; Sepharadi and Ashkenazi Jews; Male-Female Dialogue.
		Sandbank, Shimon, "Contemporary Israeli Literature: the Withdrawal from Certainty," Triquarterly 39, Spring 1977, pp.
		Shaked, Gershon, "Childhood Lost, Studies in the Holocaust Theme in Contemporary Israeli Literature", Literature East and West, 1970, pp.
	overseas.huji.ac.il /Aut_2001_syl/maoz_myth.DOC (1023 words)

	Hebrew College News Releases
		Gila Ramras-Rauch, internationally distinguished scholar of Hebrew, Israeli and Holocaust literature and leading authority on the writings of Aharon Appelfeld, died on February 16, 2005, in her home in Brookline, Mass.
		The Lewis H. and Selma Weinstein Professor of Jewish Literature at Hebrew College, Boston, where she taught for 23 years, Ramras-Rauch believed that Jewish literature is a window on the human condition and the creative mind at work.
		Ramras-Rauch was the Lewis H. and Selma Weinstein Professor of Jewish Literature at Hebrew College, where she taught for 23 years.
	www.hebrewcollege.edu /html/news/nr_gila_2-16-05.html (873 words)

	UPNE \| The Boom in Contemporary Israeli Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A critical introduction to contemporary Israeli literature that places works and writers in their cultural and social context.
		The collection shows how contemporary Israeli literature both chronicles and confronts cultural and societal dichotomies -- collectivism vs. individualism, native Israelis vs. Holocaust survivors, male vs. female, religion vs. secular, Ashkenazic vs. Sephardic -- that characterize a nation whose self-conception has been shaped by its complex and conflicted history.
		ALAN MINTZ is Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at Brandeis University.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-87451-820-2.html (277 words)

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