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| | Fifty Years of Culture in Israel |
 | | They include Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, Yoram Kaniuk, and Aharon Appelfeld (the latter's main influence is that of the Holocaust, although his work, set in rather amorphous and intangible European settings, only contains allusions to the cataclysmic events of that time). |
 | | Some younger writers, now in their forties, such as David Grossman, Meir Shalev and Yehoshua Kenaz, continue to have a major influence on the local literary scene, and they too are published abroad. |
 | | Many of the local theater productions are by Israeli playwrights, and audiences will flock to see the latest play by writers such as Hanoch Levine, Yehoshua Sobol, Shmuel Hasfari or Hillel Mittelpunkt. |
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